Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
I would like to begin by thanking you for appearing before the Committee today. It is a brief, but at the same time, broad overview of the industry, and I want to thank you for that. However, there is one area that I would have liked to see you discuss further, and that is the tax system affecting the oil sands industry in Canada. You talk about—and I understand that—120,000 direct and indirect jobs that have been created, as well as 1,300 Aboriginal people directly employed by the industry.
However, I would like you to describe the Canadian tax system as it applies to the oil sands, how much that represents annually and how much it has represented for Canadians, in terms of various taxes, over the last 10 years? Can you give us some general indications in that regard?