There's absolutely no question that doing energy efficiency projects will increase employment. Just as an example, the project in Prince Edward Island was about a $150,000 lighting retrofit and 50% of that would have been labour. Of course, the luminaires had to be constructed, so there was a 50% labour component to it as well.
The point I'd like to make is that it needs to be dead simple. Lighting retrofits do not need to have performance contracts. We did about 200 schools in Alberta under performance contracting. Unfortunately those guarantees cost a lot of money, and there's a long selling curve to try to put the money in place to have those. Ten-year paybacks became the standard because of the very high cost of including long payback items and so on. I know I may be preaching lighting, but in lighting retrofits 25% of the energy consumption can be reduced by at least 50%. So a 10% or 20% reduction in the building can come from lighting alone.
The technology is proven. We simply have to have a very simple monitoring system that says, “Okay, here's the audit. We counted the lights”. At the end of the day, someone needs to go in and say “This is the number of lights that were changed and”—boom—“there are the savings. It's done”.