Mr. Chairman, the department does place a high priority on energy management and energy conservation measures. We have, up until now, been focusing on the Greenhouse Gas Strategy as being a key one that will fit in with a national strategy, for a couple of reasons.
One is that there is funding that may become available to us to help do some more specific things in terms of our own strategy to come through the national office on climate change. So we are very involved with that. We realize that we need a more comprehensive energy strategy as well, and I think it is only workload that is preventing us from moving ahead more rapidly on it.
Instead of being involved in that one directly, we have continued to support the Energy Alliance. We were involved in starting it. We continue to support it with $190,000 a year, and we participate on the steering committee for it. So we are using that as the main vehicle for trying out some innovative ideas.
In addition, I have asked the department to look into the viability of things like the installation of solar panels or solar walls on buildings. We need to look at the viability of running programs for private individuals or having solar walls on institutions. So there are a number of individual things we are doing.
Putting it all together into one energy strategy is important and it is only workload that is preventing that from happening. We have so many things on the go right now. Thank you.