Thank you, Mr. Chair.
From looking at the presentations so far this morning, it would seem to me that the oil producers who are drilling the oil and the oil-producing countries are making all the money, and the refineries and everybody down the line aren't, and that the refinery capacity is not going to increase any time soon because there's capital outlay and there's not enough return. That's my assessment here.
I'd like to talk about inventories, and inventories in regions. We have a big country, we have remote regions, and we have only a few players.
I'll tell you what happened in our region last year. We ran out of furnace oil for a couple of weeks. We live on an island. There's only one storage facility. There are different retailers who draw from it, but at the end of the day there is one storage facility.
You talk about keeping inventories low or even moving inventories around. So if you have a big company and they see a better market somewhere, that could be happening. But at the end of the day, you have a region that's without furnace oil, and if there are ice conditions around or ships not available....
Now, provincial governments are asking how they can avoid this happening or how they can interfere with it. How do you see us dealing with this? Can you penalize these people for not having oil available, because technically they have a monopoly, or do you encourage them by helping them with their inventories? How do you see us overcoming this, with a big country like ours, few players, and remote areas that could be without furnace oil if they're moving their inventories around?
That's for Mr. MacLean or whoever wants to answer the question.