Certainly. On the question of adaptation, again, I'm not sure I have any specific perspectives on exactly what the council could or could not do. But we certainly benefit through our partnership with Canada on programs designed to provide information around adaptation, whether that be base data or the other work that we're doing in partnership with Canada. So again, at the risk of sounding anything other than helpful, I'm not sure I have any particular perspectives on how the council can undertake or wrestle down that work, but I certainly know that Canada and the GNWT have some effective partnerships in that area.
With to respect to renewable energy, certainly as a jurisdiction, again, Ms. Laverdière, we are doing everything we can to try to realize and bring to market our significant hydro potential. What we are doing in the interim on a community basis—because obviously there are significant costs associated with bringing some of those world class resources to market—is that we're using a lot of biomass.
We have been very dependent on diesel fuel in our communities, much the same as the other territories to some extent. In fact, some of the communities were almost exclusively reliant on diesel fuels. So any energy or alternative renewable energy sources we can bring to market in those communities helps us just get out of diesel. Biomass is something that we've put a lot of energy and resources into, and we probably consider ourselves a bit of a leader in that regard. Obviously, the uniqueness of the north, the 33 small communities in the NWT, lend themselves to these kinds of programs.