Thank you very much, Mr. Chair and Minister.
Mr. Dupont, thank you for being here this afternoon with us to go through some of the estimates.
I'm going to focus mainly on pipelines and probably have a little bit of a discussion on the west-east pipeline as well. I will focus my questions there.
Minister, you have done a fair amount of travelling. I know you have been to Saint John. You've been to the Irving refinery in Saint John. A significant portion of the proposed east-west pipeline that would be built through New Brunswick would actually go through my riding of Tobique—Mactaquac.
With regard to some of the things you've learned on export markets, can you talk about the position on the west-east pipeline, specifically the benefits of not only having more oil in the east refined at the Irving refinery, but maybe more specifically on the ability to get our product to deep water and the benefits of that?