Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It was interesting. Some of us were talking here while you were noting on that and we were looking at a bit of a list of wind power projects the government has developed for the P.E.I. Energy Corporation, Suncor, Kettles Hill Wind Energy Inc. It looks as if there are about half a dozen here. For just about 655 megawatts of capacity, the number I have for the ten-year allocation is just shy of $190 million for the projects I'm looking at here, which actually sort of feeds into the first question where I'm going.
A couple of you are talking sort of very specifically that the government should fund, subsidize, etc., certain sectors or certain technologies. Here is my underlying question. Assuming we do decide to pick and subsidize things, why should we, as the government, do a technology-based subsidy versus an outcome-based subsidy? Because at the end of the day, if I'm up in Paulatuk, Northwest Territories, and I have a diesel generator and I want the cost of electricity to go down, not in the winter, evidently, but maybe in the summer solar-based technology might work better than wind-based technology. So why would we even think of doing technology-specific subsidies?