Thank you, Mr. Chair.
And thank you to both our witnesses present and the one appearing on video conference.
Mr. Green, my first question will be for you. You started touching on the vein I wanted to go down, right toward the end of your comments. You talked about the need to find these emerging markets, and some of the risks and risk management.
It has certainly been said before that there's always a cost to doing something, but there's also a cost to doing nothing. From your perspective, could you give us some comments on where we would be, or what is the cost if we did nothing, in terms of the trajectory we would follow? I see these numbers from 2012 to 2035, that there's going to be exponential growth, both in LNG and oil demand, and that's GDP contributions.
If we just stall out now and don't keep up with the pace in what was described in our last committee as a bit of an energy race...what will the cost mean in real terms to Canadians if we do nothing?