Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, everybody, for giving your testimony.
I have a couple of questions. The first is for Mr. Jaccard and Mr. Marshall.
All regions in the country are going to be competing to attract industry based on power rates. That is a key factor to getting industry in and promoting economic development. When we talk about a concept like a carbon tax—suppose we buy into that—some regions have many more alternatives to explore regarding different kinds of generation sources, whether these are tidal, wind power, or whatever.
As Mr. Marshall said, wind power would potentially be 1,500 megawatts by 2013 in the region.
If we say that, and a utility undertakes using wind energy and developing it—and New Brunswick and the east side could do that—how do we combat the factors that Mr. Marshall talked about, concerning balancing this with generation, so that we have reliability on our system in the Atlantic or across regions? Technically you're relying on other provinces to help balance your load, and you need that generation from other sources.
How can we deal with this jurisdiction, Mr. Jaccard, first, with a carbon tax, and how do we help utilities get over that provincial jurisdiction issue?