Oh, yes, that's why I came.
Thank you, Monsieur Ouellet.
I'll have to have him repeat the answer.
Thank you, gentlemen. That is the limit of our time for our discussion with the representatives of the Department of Natural Resources. So I'll thank Mr. Campbell and Mr. Marrone for their time today and for responding to the questions of the committee.
Thanks very much.
While we are waiting for the next witnesses, I am going to ask the committee about some other business that came up.
We received an invitation from the National Research Council. You'll recall that they appeared before the committee, and there was some interest from some of the committee members in looking at the gas turbine plant at the NRC. Despite that interest, it would be somewhat difficult I think to arrange this in the time we have. It involves going through the same process we'd follow if we were going to Churchill Falls, just to go to the turbine here in Ottawa. Unfortunately, that's the case with regard to moving equipment and translators and things. I just want to raise that with the committee.
Unless there's a strong demand from the committee to pursue it, I think I'm just going to thank them for the invitation and respectfully decline. I think first we just don't have the time. If individuals would like to go on a tour, I'm sure that could be arranged, but as a committee I think it would be somewhat prohibitive at this point to include it in our agenda.
I will leave it to committee members. If they want to go on a personal tour of the gas turbine lab in Ottawa, at the Montreal Road campus, I'm sure they would welcome you to attend.
Is that okay?
Now we'll carry on with the business of the day, which is the greening of electricity consumption in Canada, the use of coal, and towards a clean technology.
We have now, representing the Coal Association of Canada, Mr. George White, chairman; and from the Canadian Clean Power Coalition, David Lewin. David, thank you for attending as well.
We're going to proceed in the same manner. I'm going to ask you to try to keep your initial opening remarks to about 10 minutes. Then we'll proceed with questions until our time runs out.
Mr. White, are you prepared to begin?
All right. We'll ask George White, chairman, from the Coal Association of Canada to begin his presentation.