With the department's work on energy, we work in a number of different ways. We have, for example, scientific laboratories and science and experts who are working on new technology to reduce environmental impacts, to reduce emissions, to decarbonize different parts of the existing energy system, as we know it, that's fossil fuel based. As well, we have people working on renewable energy and new renewable energy technologies, for example carbon management around carbon removal and carbon capture use and storage, along with programming to focus on transitioning to more renewable energy forms for electricity generation, as well as the work that happens with different provincial jurisdictions, whether it's in the electricity sector or in the oil and gas sector.
We work in a number of different ways. Sometimes it's through science and research. At other times it's through programmatic work, where we're sponsoring or providing funding to jump-start something to happen more quickly. At other times, moreover, we are working with communities that are actually consuming the energy for their own reasons, whether they be indigenous communities or much broader communities around electricity generation with provincial utilities, for example, or in the case of Alberta and Ontario—which have partly regulated markets—with private sector partners.