If I understand correctly what you're telling me, the international price of oil isn't high enough for some oil sands deposits to be profitable, or at least as profitable as the deposits that are easier to exploit. Isn't that similar to the argument that people gave us in the 1960s for keeping our coal mines?
At the time, the price of oil was so low that it was much more costly to produce a tonne of energy with coal. People said we had to keep those jobs, in Cape Breton, among other places, and we subsidized them. However, a lot of people, particularly in the investment world, said we should let the market determine what should stay open, particularly since coal, as we know, pollutes.
I get the impression that, if we want to let the market operate, the day the price of oil is high enough to justify developing the oil sands, without preferential treatment, consumers will pay for that. I admit that you haven't yet convinced me. I'll give you one last chance; you have 30 seconds to do it.