Thank you for your question.
It is a hypothetical question.
With respect to proceeding to the closure or the conversion, or anything related to that, it is a provincial jurisdiction. In this particular case, should there be a delay or should there be any uncertainty, given the excess capacity in the particular Canadian refinery marketplace, as well as the competitive petroleum import market in Quebec, the nature of the uncertainty would not cause the federal government to intervene under the Emergencies Act, nor under the Energy Supplies Emergency Act, as it would not appear, as I pointed out earlier, that the particular issue is a national emergency or of a national nature.
Again, the federal government's role in a national emergency relies on the provinces to deal with energy shortages and to reactivate all business activities. Prior to enacting emergency powers, the federal government would need to make certain that the provinces requesting the aid—which would have had to request the aid—had taken all reasonable steps to minimize any of the potential disruptions. To do this, the province would likely have to declare its own state of emergency before the federal government would take action on that particular front. In a declared state of emergency, we would consider that. However, as I pointed out, NRCan does not believe and our assessments don't believe this would meet the conditions under the act.