I think of the hundred programs, there were some that were dropped. Indeed, the government I think has announced that there are about 15 or 17 programs that will not proceed. The REDI program is not on that list.
In response to your question about evaluation, we did have a comprehensive evaluation of the REDI program about three or four years ago, I think it was. Funds were frozen for a while. There was some controversy about the ratio of the support we were giving for incentives versus training, certification, building up the industry. We did a review and made some adjustments. We've been increasing the proportion of incentives over time.
By and large--and I think Rob might have some statistics on this--we have seen a real increase in the market for solar over the past couple of years. It was pretty slow in the early years as we were trying to build the infrastructure; now it's starting to really take off in a couple of sectors.
So I guess on the solar side I could say I'm hopeful, and that's all I can say. I can't really speak for the government, but I think I said a couple of weeks ago that we were hopeful about getting an answer on the solar side before the end of the month. That continues to be our hope.
In the meantime, we've done what we could as a department to relax one of our terms and conditions to ensure that you don't necessarily have to have your contribution in place by the time construction starts. We realize the difficult position the solar industry has.