Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses today. I've been listening intently to some of the things that have been said.
First, you talked about the discontent that can happen in some of these areas and that can divide a community. We have a little of that in Ontario right now, with the wind turbine farms that the Government of Ontario has decided to subsidize very heavily. What happens in these proceedings is that contracts are signed by wind turbine companies, and they're done in secrecy. Then all of a sudden you find out that you didn't sign on—you didn't want to have any health problems or some of those things that might come from those facilities—but your neighbour signed it a year ago, and there will be a wind turbine within 550 metres of your home.
These things can happen, and I'm wondering if this isn't what causes some of the conflict in some of these places. Maybe the extractive industry people, when they go into some of these areas....
Is it done through the government or is it done gradually, through the people who live in those communities?
Mr. Bergeron, please.