I would say that our model or planning process was successful because we had a champion at the local level. And I would say that was an incredible value to us because we had an individual within our own organization who was able to steward this initiative, both through our own corporation and within the community. So we garnered tremendous support through our local action planning process by engaging partners at the local level. It was the senior level of staff person within each of the organizations who signed the declaration of community partners. It was the president of Laurentian University, the CEO for the Sudbury Regional Hospital, the president of Cambrian College, and our financial institutions. We had a senior level of staff in buy-in.
About assisting other municipalities to move ahead with these types of initiatives, when you start to talk about the incredible local benefits that a community can accrue or realize because of this initiative, then it starts to make economic sense. For us, as a more remote northern community, if we can rely less on the outside marketplace for energy and start to reinvest some of those dollars in technology in our own community, that will help us create a new economic base for our community, besides mining. We'll be able to use it as an attractor for new business to our community, including green business. And if we start investing in our own technology—because within our community energy plan, we're positioning ourselves to take a vested interest in this—then perhaps we can start to offer long-term power purchase agreements towards new business coming to our community that will make it an economically viable attractor to bring in and generate new business to our community.
So those are some of the initiatives that are available to any community of any size. It not only builds on the quality of life for a community but it also talks about quality of place and a whole host of things that contribute to what a sustainable community is all about.