Thank you very much for your presentations. I know that you had a lot of material, and that you only had a short time to present it. I appreciate it very much. You have left a number of documents that we will be able to read carefully.
My question is for Mr. Hornung. I know that the wind energy industry has been greatly fostered by a number of programs, which accounts for its rapid growth compared to geothermal or solar energy. You have taken advantage, so to speak, of support, often dynamic, from different provincial and territorial governments in order to be able to develop.
I am going to talk about the situation in Quebec, because I do not know what happens in other provinces. At the moment in Quebec, we are—I don't know if we can say at a crossroads—in a situation where there are development offers, but where resistance is being encountered from people who are stopping wind development, or slowing it down because wind farms are being established willy-nilly. I understand that companies, often foreign ones, set up in regions and negotiate conditions. What people are complaining about is not getting enough revenue or enough benefit from the turbines. In my riding, most of the regional county municipalities are drafting rules to curb the installation of wind turbines, yet evaluations have revealed the presence of very powerful.
In your association, what action are you taking? If people do not want wind turbines near their homes, on their land, that causes a problem for development, in Quebec anyway. I would also like to know whether it is fact or fiction that the investors are foreigners, and not Quebeckers or Canadians.