There's been a change in that there's been a more positive message around oil and gas, but I don't think there's been a focus when it comes to housing and what this means for building codes. The building code is still kind of unfriendly to natural gas access, and a lot of the federal programs that we looked at that help communities with community energy are still not super friendly to natural gas.
The communities that we worked with in our research have been working on getting access to natural gas for decades, because it's the most affordable. Some of their neighbours benefited from provincial programs that extended that infrastructure, even when they were pretty far away from the major cities, and having that access allowed them to develop their tourism and to have recreational facilities that would be unaffordable to heat with electricity. They're looking at what the mix of energy solutions is that can work for their community so that they can get the things they want, and they want gas to be a part of it.
There's the jurisdictional gap I mentioned. We're exporting gas to the world from the Montney formation, and communities there are on propane. They would like the cheaper natural gas, and there's an infrastructure gap to fill it.
Can we be creative in how we use the federal programs that allow indigenous participation in major projects so that those programs can be a vehicle for those communities in getting that step up on infrastructure that gives communities access to these additional options? That's the important thing for Parliament to consider and for the government to try to close as a gap.