You've asked three other questions. I'll try to get through them really quickly.
You talked about the limited scope of the projects in some of these. In fact, that's the opposite. I'll give you some hard examples, and I know they look similar to some of the previous government's programs.
The previous government brought in, in their last year of office, a program called the WPPI, a wind incentive production program. The WPPI program actually was exclusively only for wind. It didn't provide any incentives for renewable energy. We brought in our ecoENERGY renewable initiative incentive to provide a production incentive, very similar to the previous one except we have included renewable energy such as biomass, tidal, small hydro things, and obviously wind and solar. These were not included in there. And we have other separate programs for solar heating and so on and so forth. So we've actually expanded the scope of some of these projects to invite more renewable energy.
You've talked about files in your office about damage to victims. I can only say that people have signed contracts, signed contribution agreements. We are honouring all of those. I've expressed that in the House. I've expressed that, and I would be more than happy to look at specific files, if you provide them to me. The department will look at them. If they're signed contribution agreements or contracts, we are honouring each and every one of those. I made that very clear on the day we announced that we would not be proceeding because we didn't feel this program was efficient. And we have even stronger and better programs in place now.
That information's been very, very clear. There have been a few members from all parties who have brought files forward to me, and I take them to my officials and we look at them. If someone's fallen through the cracks, we're fixing them. So the government has no intention of not honouring signed contributions or contracts. In fact, we've been receiving quite positive feedback on our new energy efficiency initiative.
I appreciate your comments and the work of the Library of Parliament. I acknowledge there are some similarities, stuff that's working. I have no problem saying yes, we need to do this. I've said many times, the largest untapped source of energy in this country is the energy we waste. Energy efficiency is so important, but it's equally important how we spend the taxpayers' hard-earned dollars--that we spend those efficiently as well.
Admittedly, we're making some changes, but we think we've got the right ones.