Thank you for being here before us.
I just want to expand on the topic of these programs that have been brought in to encourage people to use less energy and some of the unintended consequences around that. In my riding in southern British Columbia, the local electricity provider, Fortis, brought in a two-tier system to encourage people to stay below a certain point, and it adversely affected people who heated their house with electricity. Most people in my area heat their house with natural gas, which is relatively inexpensive, but people in rural areas, who didn't have access to natural gas, and low-income people, who couldn't afford to convert to natural gas, were seeing huge electricity bills.
Now, Fortis has agreed to roll that back over five years. I'm just wondering if you could talk about those unintended consequences. It had another unintended consequence. If we're going to try to reduce our carbon footprint, the obvious thing is to move from natural gas to electricity, and nobody wants to do that in my riding because it costs twice as much to heat your house using electricity. I just wonder if you could comment on that and perhaps tell us if there are other examples across the country that you know of.