In your presentation, Mr. Coutu, you talked about the economic vitality and importance of the tar sands and what they bring to Canada, but in the same breath you said that economic realities would lessen that impact over the years.
Mr. McGowan, Mr. Coutu says it's simply the law of economics that because cheaper upgrader capacity has been made available south of the border, we must continue to allow more raw bitumen to leave Alberta, and consequently more jobs to leave Alberta. Is there a place for the federal and provincial governments to say we must seek, as Mr. Lougheed did, to create wealth for Canada from Canadian resources?