Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses for appearing today.
The war in Ukraine, the illegal invasion, has interrupted what has been obvious—the food trade—and it's also been obvious in the energy trade, particularly in Europe. We were exploring at this committee how Canada can respond, but that link perhaps isn't quite as obvious, and I'm going to build upon Mr. Carey's comment that “an essential building block” of food is fertilizer. Actually, an essential building block of fertilizer is natural gas. Fifty per cent of the world's production is dependent upon access to and conversion of natural gas.
I'm going to start with Mr. Hollingworth.
Would you agree—and we've had previous testimony around this—that essential to your work is access to natural gas for synthetic fertilizer so that we can feed the world collectively?