Thank you, Mr. Chair and everyone, for allowing me to sit in.
The environment commissioner indicated the departments' difficulties in measuring and meeting the targets and promises the government has set, yet we continue to raise targets. We can't meet our current targets. You mentioned the net-zero electrical grid by 2035. How do we reconcile that with the fact that several provinces have said they're unable to meet 2035? Ontario's independent electricity system operator, in December, put out a report saying that to get a net-zero grid by 2050, it will be $400 billion in the province of Ontario alone. You're going to need six times the 14,000 workers who exist there.
How does the government work with the provinces to establish that? For example, in 2025, if Pickering is taken offline, that's 15% of the grid. Nuclear in Ontario is about 60% of the total province. If you take 15% off the grid, how does Ontario replace it? It's probably through natural gas. There has to be a way to work together, because there's no way, right now, under these goals, that I see a net-zero electrical grid by 2035.