Thank you.
Mr. Thompson, thank you for your testimony as well. It illustrates some of the gaps in the progress of the energy sector, certainly in innovation, and where we need to improve, and that's part of the purpose of this study.
In terms of geothermal mapping and modelling, there was a 2008 study done by one of your members, Michal Moore, of the Institute for Sustainable Energy, and the result of that study was that the federal government should commission a Canadian national survey to give companies a better idea of where they might best locate geothermal projects.
I think I heard correctly, but were you suggesting that the federal government give federal-backed loan guarantees to utilities wishing to explore geothermal projects such as they did with the Lower Churchill Project in Newfoundland and Labrador?