Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to our witnesses for appearing here today.
I think most of us tend to focus on the impact of the oil sands as being largely to the province of Alberta. Can you outline for the committee the impacts to the province of Ontario? There's a Liberal premier who spends a lot of time criticizing oil sands development. Those of us who are in the know, perhaps including the premier himself, have an understanding of the significant economic impacts of the oil sands to the province of Ontario. Can you elaborate a little bit for the benefit of the committee?
I'll ask a second question as a follow-up to that. With a softening Ontario economy and the economic benefit from the oil sands, can you talk about the potential impacts of a proposed carbon tax on the industry in the oil sands and what that could mean?
Those are the questions.