I hope so. We, as a sector, like to sell the fact that value chains are what we're about, whether they are inorganic minerals, energy products, or biomass. We have members that take the raw material, which is a resource in Canada, and add 10 times to its value. We take it to a level that none of us see here, a mound of polyethylene pellets or polypropylene pellets, but somebody else takes that and makes an auto part out of it, or a Frisbee or a kayak, and there the value added is a hundredfold.
If we have some basic competitive comparative advantage, we can do it here. We have the resources in this country. We are adding value to them. We have companies—to use our oil sands example, because that's always a classic—that go into the oil sands and contract to reduce water consumption as a chemistry service or to capture all the SO2 emissions, convert them into sulphur and fertilizer, and ship it to China as a fertilizer. These are chemistry-driven solutions.
We have other companies that have taken what were being used as off-gasses in making bitumen, and rather than burning them to make more bitumen—it is very rich in chemical feedstock—they are pipelining that down to Fort Saskatchewan, converting it into petrochemicals, and shipping dry gas instead—it doesn't have any of the liquids in it—to burn for their energy needs. That's saving a half million tonnes of CO2 emissions every year for those oil companies. That's a good thing to pursue in seeking to add value.
To add value means we need markets, and that's where the NAFTA comes in.