Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all of our witnesses appearing here today.
I will echo Mr. McCallum's comment that we wish we could ask all of you questions. We have heard some very compelling arguments from all of you--not enough on how to save money, but I guess that's our problem, not yours.
Mr. Collyer, you've already had a fair bit of air time today, but I do want to expand a little bit, and I think the story doesn't get told often enough of how large a contribution to this country's economy your folks, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, actually represent. Just to expand on that, perhaps you could just quickly explain a bit of your proposal about treating development and completion expenditures with the same tax treatment as exploration.
The concern I take out of this is what happens if we stay with the low gas prices and then our expertise, our knowledge, our educated individuals who know how to do this--a very specialized industry--leave the country? If you could, please expand on that.