Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
It has been interesting to listen to the witnesses this morning. I have heard various views. We looked at tax credits to make things work, and others were saying that the worst thing we could do is give tax credits because that would encourage bad behaviour.
I'll start with Mr. Fagerheim of Whitecap Resources.
I've seen the type of work that our oil and gas industry has done to become world leaders, and your work with carbon capture utilization and storage is amazing. Other projects in Alberta are doing the same, taking the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of cars off the roads. Of course, it's happening in Alberta, and it doesn't seem like anybody really cares about what is taking place there.
I'm concerned somewhat, because the way I look at it, we talk about all these great things we're going to do and that we are going to take all these minerals out of our landscape. Our last witness indicated we have to protect our landscape; therefore, we're not going to want to advance that in all areas. A couple of days ago we heard from indigenous leaders who were saying they need to have jobs and to be part of our natural resource development, and oil and gas is critical for them. We've heard from miners saying that any place else in the world you can get a project done in nine months, and it takes years and years here. We have Bill C-69, which ensures that is going to happen forever.
Where are we going to get all these minerals to create this electric vehicle battery development project when we have people who just don't want to see any development anywhere?
Mr. Fagerheim, I know the great work you've done. How do you convince others that our oil and gas industry is the best in the world and that it's better for us to be developing our great resources than giving it to somebody else to do?