Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The study before us is extremely important, but there are other issues that we need to discuss. This isn't the first time the matter has come up in committee.
I mentioned that the Prime Minister himself said he wanted clarification. Furthermore, according to a recent article, the Premier of Alberta indicated that the deal had to respect specific conditions. She said, and I quote:
I'm going to quote:The premier has asked the federal government to impose stricter employment and management conditions on CNOOC's $15.1-billion takeover bid of Nexen [...] Redford also wants CNOOC to make firm commitments to honour environmental standards and to clarify its plan for research and development—
This is totally relevant to the current study. We have just talked about research and development and so on. That's from Mrs. Redford.
Also the business—