Thank you very much for the invitation to meet with the committee.
My name is Kate Harland, and I am the director of clean growth at the Canadian Climate Institute. I'm going to draw on some research that the institute has been working on over the past year.
I'll make four main points.
The first is that low-cost, abundant electricity enables both economic growth and electrification. Access to reliable, low-cost power underpins economic growth. It has been a competitive advantage for Canada in the past, but Canada has to be proactive to retain and leverage that advantage.