Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I appreciate our witnesses being here today. It has been a very interesting study. We learned a lot about some of the options that we've had.
I'm going to direct my first question to Mr. Bagger, but a couple of other witnesses might want to chime in on that as well.
Certainly as we're going through this study we understand that we have to look at alternative options in terms of energy for Canada. There has always been a discussion about renewables, whether it's solar or wind. In terms of my riding in southern Alberta, we don't have nuclear in Alberta. It has certainly been a hot topic of discussion for decades but never has gotten that along. I have 600 wind turbines in the southern part of my riding, which is very controversial. I know some of my farmers and ranchers would rather run them over. It's interesting that earlier in this study we heard that nuclear could be done at a fraction of the cost of wind and solar. When we're talking about alternative energy, we rarely talk about the opportunities with nuclear.
I look at Ontario, where nuclear is 60% of the energy for that province, where wind is around 10% and solar less than 1%, yet we spend millions or probably billions of dollars on the research for those two sources when we could be looking at a much more stable, reliable energy source in nuclear.
Can you maybe talk about the opportunities that are there to invest in nuclear and the opportunities that are there to have additional nuclear energy as a renewable energy source rather than wind and solar, and maybe compare nuclear with wind and solar and the chances there?