Thank you, Chair.
It's very important to understand that connection. I tried to explain earlier. I know you're talking about Tenaris in your own riding, but again, the products they are supplying through there originate with steel made somewhere else. We think this supply chain effect across the country is very important to showing how manufacturing and energy are not just compatible with each other but are interdependent.
As I explained earlier, we can trace the pipes in Nisku or in the ground in Wood Buffalo back to an iron mine in Quebec as the starting point, to a steel mill in Ontario or Quebec, or Regina or Calgary, as the processing point, and onward.
It's not just that material is moving; there's a value-added at each one of those steps. This is a value-added chain across the country whereby we get Canadian steel into the oil and gas segment. That's why we're so keen on that development. We're equally supportive of the efforts to spur LNG investment in British Columbia. That's a very steel-intensive business, not just at the port but back into the gas fields as well and in transporting the gas to port. These are essential relationships.
What's really changed in our industry over the years is the proportional importance of that in terms of our production.
We grew up as an industry based largely on automotive and construction. The energy sector is kind of in the ballpark with automotive as an end use of our steel products. That's energy broadly defined. It's a very important set of relationships.
The key point to your question is that it doesn't all happen in Alberta. A lot of what's happening in Alberta is actually causing things to happen in provinces east of there.