I would say there are three things that the government can do to make sure that the products get to market in the form that is most competitive and in the most appropriate time. We can't manipulate the market to make things get there faster or slower or sell more rapidly than other products, but we can make sure they get there in the most efficient way possible.
The first thing is to recognize that our oil products trade on world markets at the best rate they can. Heavy oil products are discounted when they finally get to distant refineries. Most of that refinery capacity today exists in the mid-continent. The United States has a lot of capacity. It can treat basically all of the product that we can send down, but it will do so at a discount, not only for the quality—in other words, they pay less to get a heavier oil—but it costs us more to ship it down. We can send product to those markets and get the best price possible when we have the most effective treaty or permission to cross with the pipelines that we have.
Second, we can move forward and begin to identify the rights of way that we'll need for pipelines, for wires, for storage capacity, and frankly for new rail facilities, where needed. The government can take a dramatically important role in identifying where those rights of way will go. Some of them will need co-operation from aboriginal groups, and some of them will infringe on private landowner rights, which we'll have to perfect in terms of compensation.
Finally, I think we can do a great service to the industry to make it as efficient as possible by identifying the ports of exit that we'll need for the future. We won't be able to depend forever on limited port capacity in the maritimes or out of Vancouver. We'll need additional ports to be able to export efficiently. I think to the extent the government can identify those, work out the details of compensation and land ownership, do it in as egalitarian a fashion as possible and eliminate some of the competition for 16 different port sites, narrow it down, and use the federal authority, the federal leadership, we'll make that market as transparent and as efficient as we possibly can.