The data we've analyzed the most has been Ontario data in our role as an Ontario legal aid clinic. However, in attending a national energy poverty conference for a few years and working with my colleagues who do reach out to people at Dalhousie and elsewhere, we see there are differences in the data that's collected and analyzed. It was our experience that, until there was actually an intentional focus on energy poverty, the data wasn't being collected and analyzed here either. Time and time again, it's been our experience that energy policy is introduced and even once it's more on the radar it's often forgotten as an issue that needs to be considered, because people might think, well, renewable energy policy isn't about energy poverty, or climate change isn't about energy poverty, or some other aspect. In fact, it's quite important in our experience to always look at energy poverty in every energy policy decision. As noted earlier, some of those consequences are unintended.
In terms of the role of a national institute, we think it's quite important to be doing comparative analysis, learning about best practices, finding out if some of the approaches are more effective than others in alleviating the impacts and whether participation rates are greater in some provinces and territories than others, and then learning from that. We've taken a huge number of lessons from our colleagues in the United States, and one of our consultants who's helped us a great deal has looked at Vermont programs and others, looked at their participation rates, and taken some of their best practices in our advocacy here.