There is confidence and our board members and staff are committed to fairness, to taking action, and to doing the right thing for Canadians, and we also have the dedication and the capacity to deliver. We recognize that there's always room for improvement. As I've talked about in my statement, we've set three priorities for ourselves to guide the NEB in the months and years ahead.
Our top priority remains safety. Our objective is to continually strive for zero incidents. To do so, we will continue to raise our performance on safety oversight. We're redoubling our efforts to reach out to Canadians, to build better understanding, and to improve trust and confidence in the NEB. Many Canadians don't know what the NEB does, so it's really a matter of explaining our role more than anything else.
Our third priority is regulatory excellence. Simply put, we're committed to evaluating and improving our own processes and activities to help ensure that we're as effective as we can be. Our chairman has frequently said this. The energy debate in Canada is complicated. It provokes strong and often polarized opinions, so never has the NEB been so clearly at the centre of public attention. We think that by focusing on the mandate that's entrusted to us by Parliament and continuously striving to be better at what we do, we will continue to deliver on our overarching responsibility to regulate in the public interest of all Canadians.