With all due respect, I think the role of government here is limited. What we need to get is access to world oil prices. The problem is you have to build a pipeline. You have to pay folks for that. You have to pay them, and you have to pay the Province of B.C., because nobody wants that pipeline. Without that pipeline, I think there is an argument that we could move 600,000 barrels a day to a refinery in Quebec and a refinery in New Brunswick so we wouldn't have to import oil from Venezuela. I think that's a doable deal, but we're going to need to do a lot more than that if tar sand production is going from 1.7 million to four million a day. For that matter, we'd need two or three Keystone XLs to hit those kinds of production numbers.
On May 2nd, 2013. See this statement in context.