Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Ministers and your departments, for being here today.
As a western Canadian representing the province of British Columbia, I'd like to talk a little about the northwest transmission line project and the $130 million investment in that line. Of course, that is going to help insofar as the collection of run-of-river projects and will limit the footprint of transmission corridors in British Columbia. Another project in Yukon, the Mayo B hydro facility, at $71 million, is going to take a number of diesel generation plants off the grid in Yukon.
Were these priorities set out because of the great initiative as far as greening and making sure they're environmentally friendly are concerned? When you made those decisions, did that have a big impact on these types of projects?