Thank you.
I do not usually sit on this committee. I chair public safety. I find this study quite fascinating.
First of all, I pass my sympathies on to you, Mr. Mullowney, on the loss of your brother. Certainly tragedies like that one lives with forever, and our sympathies go out to you.
I wanted to thank both Mr. Staples and Mr. Anderson for appearing. I'm an Alberta member of Parliament, and I thank you for the work done by you and other groups like yours, such as CAPP and other groups and organizations that are involved in advocacy.
Mr. Staples, a couple of times you mentioned bitumen. This maybe isn't part of the study they're presently doing, but if you're doing it on security of energy in Canada presently, what is your opinion as to the capacity for refining bitumen in Alberta and in Canada right now, compared to just shipping the bitumen down to the United States? Are we low in capacity? Do we need to increase that greatly? Is it a better model to have refineries than it is to ship?
Do you have an opinion on that?