Thank you for the question.
We set up a couple of years ago something called the regional energy and resource tables. They were to work individually with every province and territory to identify key areas of economic opportunity and to build on those in a collaborative way with investments, with training and with a whole range of things to accelerate development.
In the context of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador, the number one priority for both of them was working on onshore and offshore wind development, both for the purposes of creating a broader and more abundant electricity system and to produce hydrogen. They saw that there was an opportunity to create thousands and thousands of jobs, an enormous add to their gross domestic product, by working collaboratively with us. This bill is the product of those efforts. It will be a driver of prosperity for people who live in both of those provinces going forward.
That is why Premier Furey and Premier Houston are strongly encouraging every member of this committee to move expeditiously to pass this bill.