Thank you, Mr. Brown and all the witnesses. Sorry I didn't make it earlier. I was in the House.
First of all, Mr. Brown, I'm surprised, in a sense, that you say the market is going to sort out all these social problems and labour market issues. I'm quite sure it won't, but that's not really why you're here. That's not your bailiwick, I suppose. When it comes to natural gas, and the fact that the market is going to sort out whether it's natural gas or something else, is it not appropriate that the federal government has a mandate to look at what is the highest and best use of our natural gas resources? Shoving it down to extract tar I think raises some questions about whether that's the highest and best use of our natural gas.