I appreciate the response. I think that’s something that really seriously needs to be looked at in terms of increasing the incentives and the grants to our harvesters because they are spending a lot of money and I’m not sure what their return on investment is for going out on the land.

I just want to speak to this Energy Efficiency Incentive Program. I know we talked in the House about that Net Metering Program kind of developed about a year ago today I guess. For businesses, the Net Metering Program is limited at five kilowatts and it’s not feasible for some businesses to invest in their own infrastructure and put that back into the grid. I guess the question is it’s not an incentive for our businesses who want to go that route with the Net Metering Program. So I’m just making a suggestion here on whether the department would look at this and change some of their policies under the Energy Efficiency Incentive Program and maybe changing the policy to give that incentive to

business owners who want to be more energy efficient, whether it’s solar panels, is one that comes to mind, and whether this policy has been reviewed and whether it needs more funding.

What I’ve been hearing is businesses want to get into that area of cost savings and put what they produce in terms of energy efficiencies back into the grid, but there’s no incentive for them with the limit that we have. If there’s no incentive and the limit is not going to change in net metering, can we provide an incentive under the Energy Efficiency Incentive Program to provide a better, bigger subsidy to these businesses?

In some regions, like my region of Inuvik, is the high cost of heating these buildings because of the LNG when they were running on natural gas before. Now they’re having a hard time just maintaining their, I guess, profits, and they’re not really making a profit in terms of the business that they were doing before, alongside with the economy slowing down. I want to get the Minister’s perspective on it.

Will the program be reviewed, the policy reviewed, and whether or not more funding can go into them and a bigger subsidy for some of our small and even big businesses that want to do this energy efficiency but the net metering isn’t allowing them to do that?