Thank you very much.
Thanks to you all for being here.
I want to just make a bit of a comment at the outset. You might want to be aware, Mr. Heaps, that there's a really significant technological advancement on the cusp in the next few days. The Kearl oil sands plant is going to open in Fort McMurray. It will have the same greenhouse gas emission level per barrel of oil as does a conventional refinery in the U.S. In fact, it will have a lower GHG emission level than that for heavy crude from California. That might be something to add to your thinking.
I want to turn to Dr. Green. You struck fear into some people's hearts when you said that the U.S. is going to overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil producer by 2020. Those of us from western Canada remember only too clearly the 20-some years that the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline was going to be the great saviour of the north and Alberta, and then suddenly we missed the market.
I wonder if you think we are in danger of missing the market, and with this resource that could bring $45 billion into the Canadian economy, into Canadians' pockets, we might miss that market right now because of tight oil in the U.S., etc.