Hello, witnesses. Glad to have you here.
Minister Northrup, I'd like to actually invite you to come to southwestern Saskatchewan, instead of Pennsylvania, and you can actually see the benefits of oil and gas development.
I'm just wondering in your travels if you've focused on the significant benefits that come to local communities in terms of the local employment, the local service providers that are given opportunities, and those kinds of things. Have you spent some time looking at that? Are you inviting those folks, or folks who benefited from that, to come to your public meetings to explain the benefits to communities?