It's clear that any discussion about oil sands development will have to be folded into a broader strategy on climate change/global warming that the Government of Canada and Canadians adopt. What we're trying to say is that rather than focus exclusively on a legitimate set of environmental concerns, we also have to consider the energy concerns that Canadians have in terms of security of supply, price of supply, and so on. We're just trying to argue that the oil sands are part of a very complex energy mix in Canada: it's nuclear in Ontario, it's hydro in Quebec and British Columbia, it's hydrocarbons in other parts.
We need some kind of policy integration that looks at that set of energy sources and doesn't cherry-pick and say we're going to focus on the oil sands alone, because they're “out of sight, out of mind” for the rest of the country.