Thank you, and thank you to our witnesses.
First, to Ms. Inman, in trying to understand energy security, one of the questions we raise is what is the role of the federal government? And saying those words sometimes in Alberta can get you into a lot of trouble. What is the role of the federal government with respect to energy? There is a certain constituency that gets really nervous.
Yet we've been hearing consistently from the oil companies, many of them based in Alberta, saying “We need the federal government to play a role”, and some suggest a stronger role around the question of energy security.
Your group and the industry that you represent is with regard to the capture of carbon sequestration. Is the lack of a carbon price a factor in the decisions that get made in your specific industry, that Canada has no carbon price that we know of right now? We're sort of waiting on the U.S. Congress. That is what the current minister tells us. What's the resulting uncertainty in your industry?