Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm not the Minister of the Power Corporation, but I think I know enough about it to speak to this a little bit. The reason that it's at the 15 kilowatt is to protect the rate bases to start with, because the problem with that is that you start getting into these people who get bigger than 15. Say you get to 500 kilowatts or more, you know, you start getting into independent power producers, things that we're going to have that in our energy plan for some of the communities that want to be able to sell it back into the system for Aboriginal governments and communities.
At the end of the day, we sit here and argue in the House about whether rate bases and the increases, and we have to protect the shareholder, which is the Power Corporation, to be able to at least break even on their cost of operation. The higher we give, to be able to put these renewables into the system like that, it puts a lot of pressure on the Power Corporation. Plus, with us trying to balance off all these other things, with carbon tax and everything else coming, I can't see us trying to increase that, especially in a hydro community where there's already hydro in the system. Thank you, Mr. Chair.