Natural Resources committee  Very briefly, I would add to that. Fundamentally, it's about credibility, and credibility then can be based upon ensuring that you have the engagement of all of the key “stakeholders” or rights holders, or those with an interest in the sector. It's not necessarily independent, in

Natural Resources committee  I would just add, to come back to the idea or thinking about this as an investment as opposed to an expenditure, that I would encourage the committee to look at the potential economic contribution.

Natural Resources committee  The work that we do at Positive Energy is much more about looking at the decision-making arrangements and how to strengthen public confidence in decision-making arrangements. We would look at it through the lens of “what about the existing and the new users of energy information,

Natural Resources committee  That would be difficult to say ex ante, and I think it would really come down to how it's structured from an organizational perspective. That said, as we well know—and we've seen this increasingly over the last years when it comes to the energy sector—reality and perception can b

Natural Resources committee  I think I would really draw on the work we've done over the last three years at Positive Energy. We've undertaken extensive research and engagement around how to strengthen public confidence in energy decision-making. This is an issue in this country that has been extremely chall

Natural Resources committee  Now?

Natural Resources committee  That's a very interesting perspective. Certainly, that would be something worth exploring, but I would raise a few cautions with respect to that. To the extent that we're looking at increasingly new users who would be then required to pay, if those users are indigenous communiti

Natural Resources committee  I suppose, again, that could be worth exploring. I think it probably merits mentioning as well that for some StatsCan data there already are user-pay arrangements. Certainly industry is already paying indirectly by the provision of much of the information that Stats Canada is uti

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the question. You raise a fundamentally important point. Something you didn't mention, but was implied in the question, was federalism. Under the Canadian Constitution, most energy-related issues are in the provincial domain. A number of organizations, even at the

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. It's an honour to appear before the committee this morning. I'm going to give my presentation in English, but please feel free to ask me questions in French. I am chair of an initiative at the University of Ottawa that is called “Positive Energy”

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for that question. I think that's really important. We really frequently are moving into domestic-only conversations around energy, and we're clearly in a North American context. It's been so wonderful to see the renewed interest in trilateral collaboration around energ

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for that. That's an excellent question. I have a few points. I think one thing not to underestimate is the extent to which, as you well know, the market context for energy has changed so fundamentally with the shale revolution and the development of oil and gas in real

Natural Resources committee  A clear plan on climate, you mean...?

Natural Resources committee  In terms of precise data, one of the things that concerns me about where we're at right now in this process is that there are a lot of expectations, and at some level, even increasing expectations that these various issues will be addressed. The government rightly is in listening

Natural Resources committee  There's no question that more could be done to share some of the tremendous advances that have been made, whether it's in terms of reducing the GHG emissions profile in the oil sands or in other sectors. That said, on communications—and this goes to my point about the literacy t