Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to just follow up a little bit on the tail end of our conversation, the Minister and myself, through you, our Chair. I asked about would the Minister consider implementing a mechanism that’s in the Greenhouse Gas Strategy, and that’s a renewable energy portfolio, a mechanism whereby we would require industry, new industry, for example, to start providing some basic minimal amount of their energy needs through renewable energy. The Minister responded, noting that he is spending many millions of dollars. He has got many projects. He’s replacing boilers. He has a lot of programs under the efficiency programs. He’s replacing light bulbs. He has a Solar Strategy, a Biomass Strategy for more millions of dollars, and that they’re achieving some modest gains. That is basically what he said.
I’d like to suggest that what this is, is a very simple mechanism with no costs and would yield probably well over an order of magnitude and more gains in reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. I guess I would say, firstly, does the Minister agree, and would he not agree that a mechanism such as this, as he always says, very carefully considered and
put in place, responsibly put in place, would in fact not only achieve those things, it might very well support our interests in grid connections and a market for those grids and other energy objectives that we have as a government?