Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Perhaps my colleague will also ask a question afterwards.
First, I would like to say something which, to me, seems self-evident. The subject of our study is energy security in Canada. After everything I have heard this morning—we have talked about trade, prices, clients, more efficient deliveries—I feel we should call our study "Trade Security in Canada”. That would be more appropriate.
That being said, my question will be for Ms. Kenny.
Ms. Kenny, this project involves the construction of a pipeline to the west coast. We know that, since it was explained to us, there might be problems negotiating an agreement with aboriginal people, on the one hand. There certainly are environmental risks, because we don't know if we could deal within environmental disaster, if such a thing were to happen.
What do you think of this: instead of spending 5 or 6 billion dollars to build this pipeline, someone, somewhere, might say that it would be better to build a processing industry here?
In other words, we would continue to send our fuel via pipeline to the United States, and build the capacity here, spend our money and invest venture capital in the processing of products, and then we could send plastics or other products elsewhere in the world, but in a manner so as not to create environmental problems or problems with aboriginal people, which might happen as a result of the construction of a pipeline.
What do you think of this?