Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank all of the witnesses for coming out here today.
My question is for the assistant deputy minister. I want to refer to a recent CBC interview. The Prime Minister acknowledged the issue of energy insecurity in our country. That was in an interview he did with Peter Mansbridge, I believe.
He said, and I want to quote him, that “...on a certain level.... It does seem odd,”—that we are moving oil out of western Canada to the United States or Asia when a good chunk of Canada itself does not have domestic oil—“and I do think there are people out there in the marketplace looking at dealing with that particular sensitivity or insecurity.”
Can you comment on that issue of insecurity for our country and what the Prime Minister might be referring to, in terms of what is happening in the marketplace to address this? Has your department studied this insecurity issue?