Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
I also thank the witnesses for their presentations this morning before the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development.
Before moving to my questions, I would like to obtain some clarifications, in particular with regard to the document supplied by Natural Resources Canada. When I read page 14 of the deck, dealing with greenhouse gas emissions, I nearly fell off my chair. It is quite something to be told, especially in the context of a presentation on oil sands, that as far as greenhouse gas emissions are concerned we have made progress in Canada. You are telling us that GHG intensity reduced on average by 32 percent between 1990 and 2006. You are not wrong; you are absolutely right. However, might I be given the numbers in absolute terms? Could you tell us by how much GHG emissions in the oil sands sector increased between 1990 and 2006?