Mr. Ellis, in response to the federal budget, the president of your organization, Nancy Healey, put up a blog post saying:
The budget failed to provide any meaningful solutions to the greatest concerns of business owners, including:
A commitment to a comprehensive review of the taxation system to make it fair and less cumbersome for businesses.
A broad-based commitment to reduce the regulatory burden on businesses.
A renewed commitment to eliminating interprovincial trade barriers....
A clear strategy to move the Trans Mountain pipeline forward, given the significant investment made by Canadian taxpayers.
Hopefully, I will have a chance to return to the first three points, but I will specifically ask you about the last point, if you want to elaborate a bit on that. I'm from Alberta, and obviously it's a project that is very important to my province, but I believe it's an important project in the complete national interests.
As you are from Newfoundland, I want to get your perspective on that, why you believe that project is in the national interest and why it's so important to this country.