Through you, Madam Chair, I think the short answer is that we need absolutely every clean energy technology that is on the table now—so conventional, nuclear, water, solar, wind and short-term battery storage—and that is available now. We have to deploy, deploy, deploy, but we also have to recognize that there are technologies that are going to be available later this decade and then scaling up through 2030 to 2050, which are going to help us out of necessity and be needed to meet those net-zero goals. That includes adding small modular reactors. It includes bringing on hydrogen. It hopefully includes bringing on board long-term storage.
The short answer, again, is that this is about math, not theology. We have such a massive challenge in front of us in terms of the amount of clean electricity generation we have to produce that we have to deploy all of these technologies, develop them and then scale them up.
The last thing I would say to you is this: If 20 years ago we had said that solar and wind were under development and not ready for prime time, and we hadn't invested in that worldwide and here in Canada to scale it up, we would not have the solar and wind available to us at an accessible price point now.