Natural Resources committee  That's a very good question. One of the things that struck me—and I was on a panel dealing with this—was the need for better information, better data on energy. Whenever we do these analyses, and we do them regularly, it takes a great deal of our staff's time and effort to come u

Natural Resources committee  In our high technology case, we did incorporate more electric vehicles, etc. We have significant amounts of solar and wind coming on in that time period. Natural gas uses a little bit less, because we have so much more renewable coming on. It all balances out. There is sufficien

Natural Resources committee  I don't have those numbers off the top of my head.

Natural Resources committee  It's not something I could comment on.

Natural Resources committee  No. It's been 50 years ongoing.

Natural Resources committee  My comment was that the interties are one of a number of methods that can be used to increase the integration of renewables. In one of our scenarios, our technology scenario, the high-tech thing, there were a number of changes that were assumed to happen on both the production an

Natural Resources committee  When we do the electricity sector in those outlooks, we look at a number of things, Statistics Canada data, etc., but we also look at the plans of the utilities and the provinces. To the extent that those things are incorporated in those plans, and they are, then that would feed

Natural Resources committee  There are two main things that we look at. One is fair market access. Did Canadians get the opportunity to buy that electricity on similar terms and conditions? Then there is the reliability of the provinces. Do adjacent provinces have any concern about them? That's really a reli

Natural Resources committee  We haven't done that, no.

Natural Resources committee  It would have been done four or five months ago. The reference case has something that looks very close to the pan-Canadian framework, but of course there are options in that for provinces, so we simplified some of that so everybody has the same carbon or has at least the $10,

Natural Resources committee  The graphs don't show huge changes.

Natural Resources committee  It's hard to see it on the graphs, but in the high technology case, for example, wind increases about three times what it currently is. Solar's about 12 times higher. So in power generation you get some fairly substantive shifts.

Natural Resources committee  It's hard to see those kinds of differences. We see oil going from I think it's 41% down to 38% because you might get big changes on the margins, but to change the whole system takes a long time for these kinds of graphs to show. In this high technology case, the last bar there,

Natural Resources committee  I don't know about that specific line. There are 85 international power lines that we regulate. The majority of them aren't major, so I'm not sure whether that fits in the 85, but there are many between Manitoba and the states below it.

Natural Resources committee  The board's regulation is over the facilities of international power lines. It hears from all parties in a proceeding, so parties can make their case on whatever. However, we should be clear that, unlike pipelines, the board doesn't regulate the tolls and tariffs on those power l