Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This past Monday, the Minister of Infrastructure gave this House an update on our 2030 Energy Strategy, and I would like to thank the department for all the work they are doing, and I would like to thank the Arctic Energy Alliance for all the great work they are doing. Specifically, I am a huge fan of the wood-stove program. For some reason or another, we started building houses in communities and did not put wood stoves in them. This was a mistake. Now, we have this program where Canadian-manufactured wood stoves make their way up the Mackenzie, and they make their way back into people's houses. It creates community wood lots. It creates jobs. It is a very simple way of heating.

Mr. Speaker, we must build on that. We must build into more pellet boilers. We must expand into wood chips. There is so much work to be done in this area. Section 4 of our 2030 Energy Strategy says we will increase the share of renewable energy for communities by 40 percent by 2030. Mr. Speaker, the short-term goals in that section, unless something rolls out in the next six months, are far behind. I believe we need a system-wide rethink on how we heat people's houses to get the North off of diesel. We have proven that district heating is economically efficient. There is just a problem of who is going to deliver that service. Right now, we have asked many of our community governments to essentially step in to being a utility and provide district heating systems. However, they don't have the resources to begin with, let alone to expand into being a utility to provide district heating. We already underfund our municipalities. It's unfair not to provide the money they need to put the pipes in the ground and get biomass district heating into all of our communities.

Mr. Speaker, we need a strategy to find the most cost-effective way to heat all of our communities on biomass, to make sure that biomass is harvested as close as possible to the community, and truly build an economy in those communities that gets us off of diesel. I will have questions for the Minister of Infrastructure on our 2030 Energy Strategy and how we are going to get section 4 done. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.