Maybe I could start on that. I'm thinking of that in relation to an earlier question and in relation to the title of this strategic interties study. I think it may be too big to think about what it would take to connect the whole country all in one swoop, but there are tremendous opportunities regionally within the country.
I think Mr. Burpee spoke to this too, but wherever you see an emphasis on getting off of thermal and you shift into renewables in a neighbouring jurisdiction with hydro, and potentially surplus capacity in short-term energy, there will be tremendous advantages in ensuring that the capacity is there to enable efficient trade between the hydro resource—particularly the capacity in storage it can offer to back up the renewables—and the surplus energy it can provide to more rapidly displace thermal. I see, between B.C. and Alberta, important opportunities to strengthen the tie. I'm not sure that the twinning that Mr. Hinds spoke about is taking place. Someone mentioned earlier that they put in a tie from Montana to Alberta, but that actually reduced the transmission capability across from British Columbia, so there are significant limitations right now.
I think the same would be true between Manitoba and Saskatchewan, where you have the hydro potential and the hydro resource neighbouring a predominantly thermal system. We're not talking about the traditional synergies between thermal and hydro. We're talking about the new synergies when you're moving to renewables, a lot of wind that needs backup on an hourly and longer-term basis. I can't speak to eastern Canada as well, but I think there's a lot of work to be done to move to broader regions in the country and broader systems that are fully integrated and optimizing within those regions.