Thank you, Chair.
My question will be for Mr. Hutchens.
I will just say off the bat that as a Fortis B.C. customer myself, one of the biggest complaints we get in our office is the high gas bill. Because you mentioned “affordable”, I thought it was fair to bring this up. Some of those delivery costs, not to mention added carbon tax, are making natural gas that we produce right outside our back door very unaffordable in terms of heating our homes in the winter. We do well, of course, up in our area, but there are many Canadians who are simply struggling just to pay their gas bill. I'll just leave it at that.
I think Conservatives care, and maybe this is something that Liberals should be more concerned about: how affordable all of this is and how affordable are some of these measures.
Seeing that we already have over 200 years of natural gas supply outside in the B.C. Peace region, we know it's semi-affordable the way it is. My concern, based on what Mr. Lloyd asked you before, is this dramatic increase to that already, as I said, affordable but very challenging gas bill that our constituents pay every month. Multiplying that or doubling that, or even increasing that in any way is very concerning to me.
What are your comments around that? How much is adding renewable, whether it be either hydrogen or renewable natural gas, into the system actually going to cost Canadians?