Thank you, Mr. Chair. I wanted to mention again the issue of building codes and our lack of requiring such codes when we transfer this funding to communities. It’s perhaps a sensitive situation in a way, but we have these high standards for ourselves and with that we enjoy the returns and the benefits that that brings. Our operational costs are going down, we’re now saving millions of dollars per year and yet we’re not providing our communities with that same opportunity by requiring that level of building standard.
Now, I recognize that we are, in the longer term, requiring communities to come up with their energy plans and integrated community sustainability plans and so on, but there are no requirements for those building standards to be in those plans. Hopefully the department is profiling this and sharing our experience with them, but it’s almost as if our communities are our poor cousins and we’re not too worried about them having the same benefits and opportunities we enjoy by requiring these standards, and it’s committing them to a fossil fuel future and that’s an expensive future, which limits the options that they have to make best use of their dollars. So I’m wondering if we are planning on putting this requirement in or whether we’re going to continue to let the unfortunately slow progress of developing a bunch of community energy plans that may or may not have these standards in them for our communities. Thank you, Mr. Chair.