That's a very interesting perspective.
Certainly, that would be something worth exploring, but I would raise a few cautions with respect to that. To the extent that we're looking at increasingly new users who would be then required to pay, if those users are indigenous communities, local municipalities, or individual Canadians, that raises some very fundamental considerations, I think, around equity and accessibility. The research that we've been undertaking at Positive Energy really underscores that information is necessary. It is a necessary but insufficient condition when it comes to strengthening public confidence in energy decision-making. It really is a fundamental need in our decision-making systems.
I can well appreciate that there are some concerns around further expenditures of government resources. That said, I would invite the committee to consider the costs of not investing in additional resources when it comes to energy information. In this country, we have, as we well know, increasing levels of polarization around energy issues. In many instances, they are driven by misinformation, biased information, or lack of credible information. I would invite the committee to think about what the lack of a credible information system is actually costing the country, to perhaps think about the amount of resources that would be required to strengthen that system with whatever model is being utilized to advance with, and to look at that as an investment as opposed to an expenditure.