The fundamental challenge is that any utility in Canada is permitted to connect a community only where the users of the product—whether it's electricity or gas—can pay back the cost of the infrastructure over a 40-year period. The regulator looks at how many people are in a community. If the equation doesn't work out, the utility is not permitted to build the infrastructure. Sometimes they can get halfway there with the formula. Sometimes it's three-quarters the way there. Sometimes it's not very far at all. That's the limitation facing any regulated monopoly, which all utilities are in Canada.
We are in the process now of proposing to government that it unlock a program to have the public sector match funds from utilities in order to provide access to communities looking for natural gas, including dozens of indigenous communities across Canada.