I also had the same surprised reaction when my researcher gave me this information. Her reference was not to Okotoks but to another area in a western province for which her information—I think it came from government sources—was that these people were not supposed to be doing this but were going ahead anyway, because they want this energy submetering to happen.
Quite literally, if neither party complains about it, then no one complains about it, and on you go. I think that is a technical problem out there.
In terms of the federal department responsible for approving these submeters, I believe it is Measurement Canada within Industry Canada, although we also heard tell there was some jockeying for position. The image one has of officials is that they always want to grow their empires. We were told the jockeying in this respect was, “No, our little group doesn't want it; your group should do it”, and group B was saying, “No, our little group doesn't want it; you do it”. They both consider it this baby that they don't want.
I don't know why they don't want it, whether it's because of a lack of resources that they feel are stretched already and would just become more stretched, or what it is. We looked into this last week in some significant measure and were told that these meters for heat are simply not approved. There are none approved in Canada.