Thank you.
We do, as a matter of course, with our fellow regulatory agencies across Canada and the United States, share a lot of information. So we're quite familiar with and understand what each jurisdiction is struggling with and tackling in terms of issues and opportunities. At least we try to share it.
As an example, one of the jurisdictions that both Alberta, as a regulator, and I visited three or four weeks ago was in Poland. The request, other than to have three or four days of a lot of meetings, was to help the Polish government, through the Canadian government, understand what different regulatory models might look like for that jurisdiction, which frankly doesn't have one at this point. Of course, it's a very heavily populated area. There are 39 million people living on a land base a third of the size of British Columbia who have a significant shale gas play in the works underneath them. There's cause for a lot of work on their part to get the resource out using a very well-defined energy security model and to understand, at the same time, how that affects the energy balance for the country.
I think all those types of things, if I use Poland as an example, certainly speak to the kinds of issues we have across Canada, whether they're in Quebec or Alberta, Saskatchewan, the Maritimes, or certainly British Columbia. I think the varied issues across those jurisdictions, as I know them today, offer experience and tools that can be applied and shared with the rest of the countries in the world. I think Canada has a great opportunity to demonstrate leadership in providing that expertise beyond our borders.