Thank you, Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for being here.
I also want to thank Mr. Dyer for having Pembina forward your press release that you issued this morning. It uses very similar language in saying that the federal government has been missing in action, the same terms used by Mr. Robinson. It says “The federal government has been missing in action in terms of regulating the oil sands industry, and its absence has come at the expense of the environment and the long-term interests of Canadians”, and “Their failure to act has created severe risks, ranging from contamination by leaking tailings lakes to the collapse of fisheries”.
We have a natural resource that is second only to Saudi Arabia's. If the clock could be turned back, would you have supported the development of that resource?