I don't think it would be appropriate for me, as a federal official, to comment on how the province wants to carry out its affairs, but what I can certainly emphasize, as was illustrated by Minister Wilkinson in recent statements and with the electricity grid recently established, is that there's great need for clean power in this country.
This is why, in budget 2023, there is such emphasis around expenditures and tax measures, to which our colleagues from the finance and tax department just spoke, to make sure we are able to significantly expand the size of clean power production in the country.
Estimates vary, depending on which source you rely on, but I think there is broad agreement that we need to at least double the size of the power grid between now and 2050. Just think about that. It took us a century and a half or so to build the grid as we know it today, and we need twice that. Recognizing how big those projects are and how complex they are and how important it is to make sure that our workers and our communities are consulted in this, this is not a small feat.
Countries around the world—Canada, the U.S. and Europe—are faced with similar challenges. The good news is that Canada has lots of options in terms of clean power, whether we're looking at hydro, at wind, at solar or at a range of other options including nuclear. We are capable of getting there, but it will require quite a lift from the whole country.