Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I am delighted to see you again in this committee. The way I see it, not much has changed in two years. We still do not have an energy security plan. My question is for Mr. McGowan, but Ms. McEachern can also respond.
I do not think we need to adopt a Canada-wide strategy. It could be done on a regional basis. Regardless, do you think it would be possible to come up with an energy security plan based solely on market relations? In other words, we are trying to achieve energy security with oil because it has a high price tag, rather than focusing, as my colleague said, on energy efficiency. But that efficiency has to be accompanied by a reduction in our energy consumption.
In Quebec, last week, a scientist said that if Quebec were to take everything it does not use and artificially convert it into methane, the province could meet 60% of its artificial and natural gas needs.
Can you suggest any ideas for replacing oil? Instead of always coming back to tailing ponds, let's leave them be and stop using that resource. Can you tell us what other solutions a country like Canada could adopt as part of a well-balanced energy security plan?