As your chair pointed out, I've revealed my bias on where I think the centralizing and, let's say, the most persuasive leadership, ought to come from. Collectively as a nation, we have drifted a long way from the vision I projected in the national energy strategy document you have there. We will not move back overnight to a place where federal standards for environmental quality or even for leadership in trade opportunities will come to the fore.
However, I think you're on the right track. Having the federal government provide the incentives and to demonstrate what the possibilities are is, frankly, going to lead to a better outcome, one where the collective benefit for Canada far outweighs any individual province that might create a cap and trade program with a foreign country, or some other benefit that goes strictly to north-south relationships.
There will be a couple of opportunities to demonstrate collective benefits or the things you can reward provinces with: a pan-east to west, or west to east, electric wire system is probably out there in the future and it's going to provide tremendous collective benefits. It's the same with an energy system that provides data and analysis equally to all the provinces to better their own lot. That's all going to be driven by federal leadership and example.