Thank you to the witnesses for being here. I appreciated your opening remarks.
Mr. Leuprecht, I'll start with yours.
You kicked off with lots of things in your remarks that I wanted to ask you about today. I was listening to you, I believe, in June on The Line Podcast. I encourage others to listen to it. You gave quite a robust assessment of where we're at and where we need to be. I did want to pull out one of the comments you made earlier. I thought it was quite informative. You said that “The Prime Minister is going to have to sell Canadians on a grand new bargain, a new social contract where we're going to build pipelines to export hydrocarbons in particular to our allies—to some extent in Asia but particularly Europe—because effectively we need to explain to Canadians that we've been subsidizing Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine by keeping energy prices high in Europe because we're refusing to export hydrocarbons. And we're going to use that revenue to pay for defence”.
You went on to say other things as well.
Can you elaborate further for the committee? It sounds like you believe having pipeline infrastructure to export to Europe and other places would be key to a defence industrial strategy. Is that a fair assessment of what you said?