Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the officials.
I look at what's happening in the rest of the world and how fast they are moving, and it seems that in Canada we have regulatory...and we have all the various provinces going in whatever direction, and I wonder how we're going to keep up.
Texas, in a single month, installed 50% of the solar that Canada has ever brought in. California, with a population as big as ours and a bigger industrial economy, is now able, for good parts of the day, to have 100% of its power from renewables. The battery capacity storage in the United States doubled in 2024, and yet, for example, provincially in Ontario, the Kathleen Wynne government partially privatized hydro, jacking up our prices. We got stuck with the debt. Then they signed their FIT contracts for their green economy. It sounded great, but we couldn't get any of the energy onto the grid. The grid couldn't take the capacity, so we were paying for solar and wind projects that went nowhere.
What is the role of the federal government in dealing with provinces that may not want to be part of the solution? How do we step in and say that we need to be looking at this in the light of what's happening globally and the dramatic shift in energy?