In closing, as it currently exists, Canada's energy information collection system is inefficient.
A Canadian energy information agency could streamline data collection, facilitate greater evidence-based decision making by government and industry alike, and increase public energy literacy. Critically, a CEIA could also assist in our transition to a clean growth economy by enabling more accessible and reliable energy information sharing, and ultimately better energy policies and decisions.
While CEA strongly supports the creation of a CEIA, the concept is not without risk. If the CEIA does not streamline the federal data collection, but instead becomes just one more federal agency to which data must be submitted, then we will have missed the opportunity and will have exacerbated the problem instead.
I thank all committee members for your time, and we're happy to answer any questions you may have.