Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank our witnesses for waking up very early this morning to meet with our committee. I would also like to thank my colleague Mr. Daniel for his line of questioning on communications infrastructure. That was something I was also interested in.
I'd like to go back to some issues raised by my colleague Mr. Bevington on financing. We know the Yukon is trying to focus in the long term on large-scale hydroelectric projects. In order to do so, we know the territory's power grid would have to be connected west, with Alaska, or south to British Columbia in order to sell excess power to other jurisdictions.
However, we know the costs of such an intricate tie-in would be $1.5 billion to $2 billion, which Premier Darrell Pasloski says is beyond the territory's financial capacity in the foreseeable future.
We do know, as you noted, Ms. Babcock, that the private sector will be involved and other parties will be involved. But what specifically is the federal government's role in financing?