Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, witnesses, for your presentations.
A number of questions come up. Of course, I'm very interested in seeing that we do something for the small wind turbines and remote communities in Canada. Many sites across the country are arguably using electricity at five or six times the rate of southern Canada in terms of cost, and these are great opportunities. A lot of modelling work needs to be done on it too, as to how to convert remote communities to the use of electricity because of the interaction between the intermittency. There are issues around attachment to diesel and the concepts of storage and use of electricity for heating in these remote communities as well. In many cases, the actual cost of electricity with the larger wind turbines could be quite attractive for other uses in those communities.
I think what's needed is a real statement from the industry about where we can go with wind in small communities. That kind of statement coming forward through this group would really help us through the committee or help us to crystallize some ideas about that and move that forward, and I had hoped it could come from your organization.
Perhaps you want to briefly comment on that.