Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses. This is an interesting topic.
Following up on Mr. Weis's comments, I'm reminded that after the Bali conference on climate change, there was a follow-up conference on the technological side of climate change, not so much by the politicians, but by engineers and such. When walking away from that, I was amazed at how hopeful the issues of climate change and renewable energy actually were. The technical questions have been answered to a large extent. There's a good future for them. But the policy front of this Bali conference, in which principally Canada and the U.S. have played this disastrous role in stalling policy initiatives, was depressing. I think it was depressing for a lot of Canadians as well. If the problem isn't technical, it's political.
One comment that Mr. Weis picked up on earlier was on the pricing of pollution. Let's take wind as an example. You talked about long-term stability and the long-range capacity of renewables. How critical is the pricing of carbon to the industry's growth?