Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Côté, I'm going to start with you. I apologize that my questions are going to be in English. I'm not going to torture you, or the poor interpreters, with my French.
I see in your background there that you have what I think is a heat pump, so you're using a high-efficiency heating and cooling unit. It's electric. We've heard quite a bit about how the entire world is going to electrification. We've heard that quite a bit from other witnesses. We've heard that it's not an ideological choice; it's simply because the technology is better, cheaper and cleaner. It is increasingly becoming the consumer's choice.
You talked about exporting energy and technology. My question is this: When we're talking about the technology side, how important is it for Canada to embrace this electrical transition and to divest from fossil fuels so that we can stay at the cutting-edge of technology and so that the products we're making here, our manufacturing sectors and other high-technology, advanced manufacturing are cutting-edge and are able to stay up to date with the modern trends?