I want to thank you all for being here. As I said earlier this morning, it's wonderful to go from place to place in this incredibly large country of ours and get a snapshot of not just the needs, but also the views of people all over the country.
Indeed, as the chairman alluded to, I do believe that a competitive and simpler tax system is one of the keys to Canada's prosperity. With the cooperation of my colleagues around this table, I suspect that we'll be undertaking a review of that in the late fall.
I do have a question for Mr. Hopkins. Needless to say, we are all sensitive and alive to the debate that we're having and will continue to have over taxing carbon pollution.
Very simply, do you see a link between the possibility of gaining acceptance nationally and internationally for pipelines, and tax and carbon pollution?