What we're saying is that the ability to optimize Canada's energy resources for all Canadians has taken a significant hit. If you took the opportunity to review our report, you would see that the maturing western Canadian basin has significant cost issues, and any time you increase the costs of capital in any business, it alters their ability to execute certain types of projects. Those projects include conventional optimization projects and they include carbon capture and storage projects.
We're not saying our industry is going to disappear; what we're saying is we're going to be forced into a corporate model that is not conducive to the nature of the basin today, and we'll be forced to do what all the other corporations are doing: pursuing different strategies that are not for the benefit of small-town Alberta, not for the benefit of Canadians as a whole, and certainly not for the benefit of individual Canadians who are being denied the opportunity to invest in something that's very important to their future.
