I want to thank the witnesses for coming to meet with us. Some of them had to get up very early this morning to be here. I appreciate the fact that, by participating in this meeting, they are helping improve the economic performance Canada can produce by developing its natural resources.
I heard the government representative say that the National Energy Board would be excluded from the approval process for building pipelines and that this process would be handled directly by Enbridge.
Does this mean that the oil industry is officially asking the committee to recommend the abolition of the National Energy Board?