Good morning, madam; welcome to our committee and to Canada. Something tells me you must prefer the winters in Mexico to ours here. Thank you for coming to testify this morning.
My questions will be about the environment, and environmental standards. We know that those standards are quite high in Europe and that environmental concerns are important to the members of the European Union.
In April 2009, the European Commission adopted the Fuel Quality Directive. In fact I had the opportunity of discussing this matter with European parliamentarians, which was very interesting. Under this directive, a higher carbon content is going to be assigned to fuel from oil sands.
Will this directive have an impact on Canada, on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, and on our trade with Europe?