Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Chairman, on behalf of the committee, at least from my own perspective, these witnesses come at a time when we have a draft report that is prescriptive at this point. It seems to me that in the draft report we don't have a link between issues related to storage and those related to alternate technologies that are interdependent on the interface.
From their own perspectives, the witnesses have talked about tidal, not only as a power source but also as a storage technology, in particular with the huge coastline opportunities we have, particularly on the east coast where there's a dependence on coal technologies.
My question is to Mr. Marshall first, and the other witnesses can make a comment. From the strategic planning approach, we went to Churchill Falls and saw the lower Churchill. We listened to the first nations people with huge concerns with respect to a second-phase hydro implementation. The committee heard about the strategic direction that your regulating entity, and I'm using that very loosely, your coordinating entity—
How much does tidal work with respect to the strategic future? If it is being considered seriously from that perspective, with respect to a future grid change, or service and consumer change in Atlantic Canada, Maine, and in that part of the United States, what do we need to do to make it a reality?
It seems to me there's a lot of opportunity on wind and on the use of tidal, but it's mostly talk at this point, as opposed to really saying, here's a chronology, this is what we can do, and this is what the future, at least for Atlantic Canada, would look like in terms of a power plant.