Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank the witnesses for their attendance today. This is a very interesting subject, northern economic development, and one that is working well for our committee.
I have a couple of questions that I want to ask. I'll start off, through the chair, with one to Mr. Reid.
The pipeline construction is scheduled for 2016, the cost being $16.2 billion. What I'm thinking about right now is that there is lots of new shale gas coming on across the country, and as I understand, there are huge supplies of gas. I'm wondering, with the costs and tariffs that will be on the pipeline, whether they will be able to compete with the other gas that's currently being found throughout the country.