It's a very good question. I think we would all like the different governments within this country to be working together more co-operatively and to be moving forward as opposed to taking steps back. That is an inefficiency in our process. The federal government could, with its broad reach, go in and start conducting the same activities across the country, but then you're not going to foster that collaboration that I think is necessary among all the funding partners in order for them to come together and say, “We're going to do this together.”
I think energy efficiency is just one of many issues that can be dealt with in a collaborative approach. It's just hard work. There is no magic bullet. I can't see any magic bullet. Even if you come with money, people are going to want to put limits on your money being spent in their area.
I saw this on a small scale when the Ontario government was debating whether to centralize its energy efficiency activities through the Ontario Power Authority, which no longer exists, versus all the utilities. All the utilities got up in arms and said, “We want to do this because we're closest to the customer.” Yet, from a systems perspective, the most efficient way would have been to leave it with the Ontario Power Authority, but politics and pressure got to the point where now all the utilities are actually doing it themselves.
It's not going to be easy, but I do think that if you have everyone working together, it's going to be easier.