Yes. This was during the Chancellor's visit in August, and this was at a meeting he had with industry and public sector representatives in Toronto. He and the Prime Minister were both in attendance. They both made some remarks, and then there was a break afterwards, and I had a chance in the break to talk to the Chancellor.
It's not very often you get a chance to buttonhole a G7 leader, so I took advantage of the opportunity to do so. I thanked him for his remarks and I noted that his remarks were particularly friendly towards Canadian gas, and he said these are sensitive subjects. Then straight up he said, “Mr. Egan, we need your gas”, and I said, “Chancellor Scholz, I encourage you to say that as much as you can publicly.” I wasn't even going to repeat that he had said it, except he then said it on CBC news, so I felt it was fair for me to make reference to the remarks.
I think the Chancellor and his representatives here in Germany have been forthright, as have many of their European colleagues, and again, we've met with a majority of them. We've met with.... I can provide the committee with a list if you're interested. The Europeans have been amazed to learn the gas story in Canada, because frankly, even though we know it well, it's not advertised that well, and they've been quite overwhelmed by it. Their response is, “All right; what do we do to build a relationship?”