Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank the witnesses for helping us with this study early on. I also want to thank the analysts for the notes for this meeting. I found them very helpful.
I'm putting my old accountant hat on for today. It's the second time in a week. It's scary. I want to start by saying that I'm proud of Canada as an energy producer. I'm equally proud and convinced that we can become a green country with a lower carbon footprint while we produce energy for the world. I am pro pipeline, against other forms of transportation. I am pro helping Ukraine beat Russia in the current conflict. I am pro helping Europe with their energy problem.
All of that being said, I want to follow up on Mr. Garon's questions around the business case. I am actually a profoundly free market person. When he talked about the Spanish company Repsol making a decision to not continue, announcing that exporting LNG from the terminal to Europe was not a viable project, it made me look at the whole issue of the business cases that are involved here.
My question is this: What do you believe the business case is for private sector expansion of energy, given that our goals as a society are also to have a greener future?