Thank you for the question.
My unequivocal answer is yes. I mean, certainly a broad-strokes direction or a framework of where Canada is going in energy—and not just on the energy production side but on the energy use and consumption side—is I think something that would be very useful for Canada, going ahead. Energy is an incredibly important part of our country and of our economy. We are among the highest per capita users of energy, and certainly we are a major energy producer. That's for all forms of energy. I'm not just talking about fossil fuels.
So I think some common vision, some common view of where we are going as a nation with respect to energy, recognizing that we have jurisdictional issues in Canada in terms of our federation, and that there is a federal role and there are provincial roles.... It's not about specifying and intruding on the individual prerogatives of provinces or the federal government by one jurisdiction or the other. But clearly, a common understanding, a common vision, and speaking about energy in a common language going forward I think would be something that's very valuable. It's something that certainly my colleagues and I in the oil and gas value chain have been promoting and working on for some time.
A number of years ago, we began an initiative called the energy framework initiative, which was fundamentally about highlighting the need for what we didn't call a “strategy” but a clearer “framework” for energy in Canada. I don't want to get mixed up in the semantics of “strategy” and “framework”, but clearly, some greater degree of clarity and common vision of what is in the national interest of Canada for energy I think would be very useful. It would be very useful to ultimately guide policy, but also to ultimately guide investment decisions so that we have some certainty and some common view of the role that energy will play in our economy and how we can maximize the value of that for all Canadians on a national interest basis.