Mr. Speaker, the Minister sent a

letter to the Members indicating the process to go through this Ministerial Energy Coordinating Committee in terms of how we’ll come to a discussion paper by next spring. The Minister has indicated that this will happen. I am grateful and I look forward to that; members of my region look forward to that.

I would like to ask in the short term, between now and springtime, what we can do to help our people. When we leave here, they are going to ask us what we’re doing to reduce the cost of energy. To share the power, can the Minister, through his committee, look at initiatives such as having smart meters put into the communities? If they’re getting close to 700 kilowatts, they would know that it’s time to start unplugging certain appliances so they can save money. Right now we have lights on, and we don’t know. Would the Minister look at that on an interim basis in terms of implementing a program like this?