Thank you.
You are absolutely right. There is a big focus right now on energy. The United States is doing things very fast, and we have to take that into account.
In order for Canada, particularly eastern Canada, to be competitive, it is important that we have access to western oil through the famous reversal of the pipeline referred to as “line 9”.
As you can see from our slides, other locations in North America can already take advantage of this, but we cannot in eastern Canada. So we have to have access to it.
Exporting is also important. Canada and Quebec must have access to this oil. However, should the Americans become increasingly independent, we are going to have to find other export markets. That is clear to me.
Today, by coming to see you, we wanted to focus in particular on the fact that we need to export outside of Canada. It is important that we not forget that Canada is also capable of doing things well. We therefore have to export our raw goods, if we don't have any opportunities for using them here in Canada, otherwise we will be missing out on a quite incredible opportunity. That is in particular what we wanted to focus on today.