Thank you for the opportunity.
Unfortunately, I find Mr. Roche's comments very troubling. He is comparing natural gas in Russia to Canadian Athabasca oil sands, and I believe, or I understand, that he was thinking that the natural gas that would be flowing through the Quebec facility would be coming from the Athabasca oil sands. If Mr. Roche had a role in that approval process, I think this is very troubling for Canada, because obviously no natural gas comes out of the oil sands [Technical difficulty—Editor] that they produce petroleum, gasoline and diesel fuel.
Our natural gas comes from northeast British Columbia and from southern Alberta, but has no relationship to the oil sands whatsoever. The way he conflated those two is quite troubling.