Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, witnesses, for attending today.
I want to spend most of my time with CAPP. It does lead the country in jobs, with 500,000 Canadians employed directly or indirectly, and you see that number rising possibly by up to 110,000 to 130,000 in the next seven years, so it's a very important part of our economy.
I first want to compliment CAPP for taking the lead in something that happened this summer. In Fort McMurray we had a fundraiser, and CAPP came to lead that fundraiser to send over $1 million in medicines to the third world. I want to congratulate you for that, and both Syncrude and Suncor. It was amazing to see the come-together of the community—oil resources, in particular—in sending that money overseas in the way of medicines. I know my colleagues appreciated, as did my constituents, being part of that.
I want to ask you this hypothetically. On page 4 of the NDP's platform, there was an advocation of a carbon tax that would be an additional tax of $21 billion for fossil fuels, in essence, and to raise that $21 billion from oil sands producers in particular. Who would ultimately pay that increase of taxation?