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Natural Resources committee  Michal probably has a more sophisticated answer than me on this. Just in terms of the economics, and this is really what my comments were earlier vis-à-vis the east coast pipeline, the reversal I think can make sense, and I'm not arguing against that, at least in terms of providi

February 7th, 2012Committee meeting

Jack Mintz

Natural Resources committee  I'll start with that because we published a paper on foreign direct investment last year, and one of the issues we raised had to do with making sure there are even playing fields in acquisition markets. In other words, in our view, mergers and acquisitions are a very important wa

February 7th, 2012Committee meeting

Jack Mintz

Natural Resources committee  Yes, and I do think that's going to be eliminated over the next several years. We've already seen, with the Seaway pipeline reversal that Enbridge purchased just recently, that it has already caused a shrinkage of that differential between the West Texas intermediate price and th

February 7th, 2012Committee meeting

Jack Mintz

Natural Resources committee  First of all, as a director of Imperial Oil, I do not comment on any public policy issues. I leave that to the management of Imperial Oil.

February 7th, 2012Committee meeting

Jack Mintz

Natural Resources committee  I am not going to speak on behalf of Imperial Oil. I'd be happy to talk about my own personal points of view, as an expert, and I would like to maintain that.

February 7th, 2012Committee meeting

Jack Mintz

Natural Resources committee  Actually, my comment on the reversal is that I think the economics are there, potentially. It's 150,000 barrels per day capacity. As Professor Hughes said, one can actually transport by tanker to the Irving Oil refinery in New Brunswick, or, alternatively, one could do the Portla

February 7th, 2012Committee meeting

Jack Mintz

Natural Resources committee  I think we have to remember what the economic gains are of our current exports to the United States. We do have an infrastructure of pipelines that go down to the United States. We also have refining capacity in the United States that demands our bitumen exports from Alberta and

February 7th, 2012Committee meeting

Jack Mintz

Natural Resources committee  As you know, Mr. McGuinty, I've always been in favour of putting some price on carbon. In fact, in the past I have proposed, with Nancy Olewiler, carbon taxation. I think it's a better system than a cap and trade system, although with that I know there is a large amount of discus

February 7th, 2012Committee meeting

Jack Mintz

Natural Resources committee  I think that some people view ethical oil in terms of where it comes from—from regimes that, let's say, are totalitarian and lacking appropriate human rights. Other people might discuss ethical oil in terms of environmental objectives, which is another set of issues. If I were to

February 7th, 2012Committee meeting

Jack Mintz

Natural Resources committee  Obviously I've not included that.

February 7th, 2012Committee meeting

Jack Mintz

Natural Resources committee  I think what's happening now is the choice the government is making with respect to the regulatory route. That is their choice in terms of how they want to deal with carbon reduction. I have a different view on how I think it should be done, but these are the kinds of issues that

February 7th, 2012Committee meeting

Jack Mintz

Natural Resources committee  I'm not sure economists are very good at answering questions about ethical oil in the sense that that's sometimes a value judgment.

February 7th, 2012Committee meeting

Jack Mintz

Natural Resources committee  First of all, we do have an agreement on NAFTA on the use of energy in terms of trying to, let's say, withhold it from the United States but still provide it in Canada. There are limitations on that. But I think the idea of trying to expand our markets is not something that would

February 7th, 2012Committee meeting

Jack Mintz

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. I'd be happy to do so. That is really consistent with what I talked about in terms of the gains to diversification that I laid out earlier in my comments. What I do think is that we have to remember that the world is a complex place. Energy and oil markets have alway

February 7th, 2012Committee meeting

Jack Mintz

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. It's our pleasure to be here. I'll just say a few remarks, as I want to give time to Michal Moore, who, with his colleagues from Stillwater Associates and Los Alamos laboratory in the United States, has done a very fine study on pipelines with

February 7th, 2012Committee meeting

Jack Mintz