Mr. Minister, I'm wondering what the Department of Foreign Affairs is seeing as what is increasingly becoming a fantastic story: the vast discoveries of natural gas. When we look across the world, I know in North America we've been blessed with huge reserves, which could drastically alter the flow of trade. There's a huge reserve, you're well aware, in Cyprus and in Israel, and I understand there's a Russian company that has begun to explore that. I'm wondering how we're looking at that, geopolitically, the whole phenomenon of natural gas. Are we starting to possibly think about where some of our exports need to go and how that will change the whole Middle Eastern geopolitical sphere?
On December 1st, 2011. See this statement in context.