I think the government should try to map out where those resources might be and then determine whether or not it's an effective way.
It sounds to me, though, that if you have an opportunity to generate power using a geothermal resource deep underground and it's close to a community, then that's consistent with the integrated urban energy systems approach of utilizing power generation close to the consumers and cutting out the inefficiencies in between. I don't know enough about it to specify what Canada's resources are or what our foregone opportunities might be, but it definitely bears further study.