Okay, I'll keep it brief.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want to follow up on my colleague's remarks on the renewable energy technologies and the need to really understand where we're going with that.
It would be good if we could have a presentation on the state of the geothermal industry. I know that under the REDI program there were no subsidies available for geothermal, but geothermal can also include a number of components, including air-to-air heat pumps and water-based heat pump systems. So I think it would be very good to have a presentation on geothermal at some point.
On solar thermal energy as well, I think we have some industries in Canada right now that are fledgling and will be impacted by the lack of support for these industries. We have to be pretty careful with these, to ensure that they continue. I can't say it enough: the solar thermal industry in Canada is huge. We've seen in Europe, where they have a third less solar insulation on average and they're doing very well with solar thermal energy in all their buildings. We really need to approach this very quickly and very carefully to ensure that the industry we do have starting in Canada gets some added incentive to move on.
We've lost some of those programs. How can we get them back on this government's agenda? I'd like to see those two industries brought forward to the committee so we can take a look at them, because they're both great opportunities.