Thank you very much to all members of the panel for joining us today. It's good to see that we're keeping well during these challenging times.
As I'm sure you're aware, pipelines are a major issue for southern Saskatchewan, for two reasons. First of all, because Saskatchewan has a lot of oil and natural gas, we want to extract and export to the rest of the world, and second, because many of the pipelines themselves are manufactured by Evraz steel just outside of Regina. As we come out of this pandemic, I would love nothing more than to see good, high-paying jobs created in both the resource sector and the steel manufacturing sector, both in Saskatchewan and across the country.
The website of Global Affairs Canada states that one of its priorities is to “deepen engagement with the U.S...on key areas such as...energy”. My question to the panel is this: How is the Government of Canada meeting this goal with regard to the Keystone XL pipeline and making sure that construction of that pipeline continues on both the Canadian and the American sides of the border?