Quite a bit of work has been done on this. In my presentation, I included one slide from the Empire State Building that looks at jobs per billion dollars invested in comparison with other energy generation. Natural Resources Canada has just undertaken a study on the employment benefits of energy efficiency. I have been asked to be on the advisory committee for it.
When I was at the Ontario Power Authority, we did a study about the employment impacts of introducing it, and here I'd be really interested in Wayne's comments. I did an opening at a project in Timmins in northern Ontario for a hospital that had been renovated. The energy performance company estimated that 80% of the jobs associated with that project were in Timmins. As the mayor looked around the town, he could see that “Joe” had hired a few guys and the mechanical guy and the civil guy. Those were local jobs.
There are some good studies on it. I made a presentation—and if there's an opportunity to follow up, I could send it to the committee clerk—to Natural Resources Canada last year, and it summarizes the studies that have been done in this area.