Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Minister, for being here today.
I want to pick up on a couple of Mr. Eyking's comments. I'm glad that the Atlantic caucus from the Liberals went up to the oil sands to see the potential benefit of that. There's a tremendous benefit. I'm glad he is supporting us in developing that and looking for all the opportunities to get our resources out to market.
One of the things, Minister, that we have heard about a lot in the news lately is the reversal of Line 9 and the potential pipeline coming east as an opportunity to open up more markets for oil sands product, which I think is tremendous. I'm sure that my colleague, Mr. Calkins, would be very happy that we're exploring all these markets as well.
In the estimates, where you talk about the funding of $5.9 million to strengthen the capacity to inspect oil and gas pipelines, are those dollars going to be something that will improve our record on pipeline safety? In your view, does that prepare us for when we start to expand our pipelines and potentially look at a pipeline east?