Three major pipelines that would get western Canadian oil to tidewater are on the table right now. I think over the next few weeks and months we'll find out what their fate is going to be. We're already seeing an increase in the shipments of oil by rail, and there is a potential for that to increase as well if pipelines are not in place.
Any growth in pipelines has to be balanced against the environmental and social implications that go along with those pipelines. I understand that the Prime Minister has asked the Minister of Natural Resources to look at the National Energy Board and to modernize the National Energy Board. We'll see where that leads us in the future, perhaps towards a different kind of regulatory regime in which Canadians will have even greater confidence.
That starts to be a little bit outside of my department's mandate, of course. We're not a regulatory department; we have a different role.