In our committee study and recommendations, page 5 of the report noted the importance of how society perceives energy development and public confidence. I would argue that the Liberals have campaigned against Canada's world-renowned track record of regulatory reviews of energy projects.
You'll remember that the Liberals campaigned on a loss of confidence in the National Energy Board, even though they never provided a shred of evidence about that. I am confident that you all know that Canada, for decades, when benchmarked substantively against other energy-producing countries in the world, has literally been second to none on all the measures of concern.
Given the comments by the Liberal Minister of Democratic Institutions, who said, “It's time to landlock Alberta's tar sands”, and the Prime Minister's rejection of the Enbridge pipeline, thereby removing the potential for standalone exports to Asia-Pacific, do you have any comments, first of all, on what rhetoric like that by elected representatives does to Canada's reputation as a responsible energy producer? Since you're experts, could you inform everybody, and that Liberal minister in particular, once and for all, if there is actually any tar in the oil sands?