Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses.
Ms. Arroyo, I'm going to stay with you just for a moment. In terms of the importance of a national framework for this, there's been some agitation within the Canadian business community. As the various provinces come forward with their plans, as the various provinces make agreements with their state partners, there's some disquiet or uncertainty as to what the future looks like for doing business across these various boundaries. Many of these companies we're talking about, in terms of being the largest emitters, work across provincial and state boundaries.
This bill, just for your familiarity, seeks to strike a cap and trade regime in a national context. The bills before you in Congress--you've mentioned the Lieberman-Warner bill.... How critical is it for your industries, the ones engaging in your Climate Action Partnership, to have some uniformity across state and international boundaries? How critical is it for their planning and investment to make sure this is a reality for them?