Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I'm really happy to be back here at the industry committee. I think the people I recognize the best are the clerk and the analysts, but it's certainly nice to be able to discuss this.
In the meantime, I've been at the environment, natural resources and international trade committees, and I think some of the discussions that we have here certainly tie into what we've been looking at.
In the analysis that we were given by Mavennet, I noticed a digital passport for a barrel of oil that indicates where it comes from and all of that type of thing, and I think that's so critical in this discussion. Where do these things originate? What is the final use of that barrel, and when that product is used, where do those molecules go? I think that's the whole thing that we're trying to analyze here.
I think it's important, but here's the point that I want to delve into. There are the environmental impacts and human rights—if we just take a look at energy. All of these sorts of things are great. We talk about how we can then sell our product—if people would appreciate what we do—around the world, and people would see how we manage the environment, how we deal with greenhouse gases, all of the achievements that we have. We'd have something to sell. However, once it gets mixed into the big pot where all the oil is, how do we know that our oil is contributing what we want it to contribute? So, if you're taking oil out of some African country and you're mixing that in, how are you ever going to get them to commit to participation in this particular type of project?
Perhaps, Mr. Mandic, you could talk about that. We can say what we want about what we have and where we're going to sell it, but if the rest of the world sits back and says, “Well, we're not going to do that; we don't want to commit ourselves”, how are we going to make that work for us?