Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to move the line of questioning, Mr. Labonté, to your slide presentation. One of your last slides, slide 14, says, “Canada’s market-based energy framework permits companies to make business decisions on where new energy infrastructure is required”.
It's been suggested by some in the House of Commons that perhaps the government should be more involved in directing and moving away from a market-based energy framework by requiring or forcing value-added...or under the guise of value-added, but it would simply be government intervention in that market-based economy in deciding where that would happen, and would put in place policies that would force infrastructure to be created that might not necessarily be created by a free and market-based economy.
What would that do insofar as affecting the price of the end product? What would it do in terms of safety? I don't know anybody who ships gasoline through a pipeline. I don't know anybody who ships gasoline in a tanker. I don't know anybody who does that. Crude oil itself is pretty inert. Synthetic crude oil is pretty inert.
Can you elaborate on what the effects of meddling too much in a market-based economy would do for the consumer and for the safety of the workers who work in the energy sector?