I see a very high level of interest. In fact, as the intergovernmental affairs minister and international affairs minister, I meet regularly with ambassadors, and virtually every person I have met with has asked, “How can we get more reliable energy from Canada?”
Right now, we do export through the Trans Mountain pipeline. When that began, everybody thought most of that product would go to the United States. Instead, the majority of it is now going to Asia.
In addition, the way we get our product to Europe is that it goes all the way down to the gulf coast, where it gets loaded on a tanker and sent to places like Poland and beyond. We should probably be trying to do more of our sales directly if we want to open new markets. We think there's capacity for another million-barrel-a-day pipeline going to the west coast and maybe another one going to Churchill or James Bay, and we'd also like to see Quebec develop its substantial natural gas resources to be able to wean itself off American supply and support our partners in Europe as well.
