Thank you, Chair, and thank you to the guests today. A lot of the questions I had have been answered, but I'm just looking at a document I received when I was in Washington recently for a G-8 plus five conference on energy.
The approach being taken in Europe and in the United States is quite interesting as well, in looking at a sectoral approach to dealing with greenhouse gas emissions and energy use—because of course when you're talking about GHGs and reductions and abatement, you need to look at energy.
There were numerous documents, but one of them that was interesting is on innovation and collaboration at the city level. It was in May of last year in Europe that more than 1,300 cities got together to set targets to retrofit buildings, look at transportation systems, and share and collaborate best practices with companies involved in this kind of process. I thought it was a smart way of going about it, because no one has the one answer for anything, and if they did, we wouldn't be here, I guess.
I would like to hear from both of you about your experience to date, as to whether you have worked outside of Canada, and if you have not, contractually speaking, then tell us some of the techniques you have employed and whether you have had the experience of seeing what's being done in the United States or in Europe, how it has helped you, and what things you have learned.