It would certainly help if we had some information about why this program was deemed inefficient. Certainly, the need to use energy audits to advance economic development in terms of retrofitting is something that I think should be taken into account and should be part of that.
However, to go on from there, I'm interested of course in some of the talk about the national energy strategy. We had the energy group here earlier this week. The energy group's framework discussion was only about the market forces. I'm pleased that you're talking about values here, and I assume that the values include the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, improvement of the environment in terms of the use of energy, and the question of imports and exports of non-renewable resources from this country.
That brings me to the discussion around liquefied natural gas. There are two or three plants that have been approved already; there's another one coming up in Kitimat. These plants are going to link Canadians into importing energy into this country for a very long period of time. That is not going to be good for our balance of payments. That's not going to be good for the security of the nation in terms of where we're getting liquefied natural gas. I'd like to understand if the previous government has done any analysis in this regard and whether we're going to see some kind of analysis in front of this committee so that we can look at these decisions.