Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks, all of you, for being here and apologies again for the delay.
I know it's going to come as a total shock to my colleagues that I am going to try to focus on the importance of the oil and gas sector to Canada's economy overall, which I want to thank you for underscoring so substantially in your opening presentation. I also want to thank you for highlighting Canada's global leading role in developing innovation and technology that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase production efficiencies, lower costs, and make us a beacon for innovative and technological development of energy resources.
I want to thank you too for noting the critical role of the oil sands in Canada's overall energy picture that will enable us in the future to meet the world's growing energy demands as we continue to increase our responsible development of that resource as well as other crude oil resources.
I thought maybe we could try to get into a few more specifics about exports and imports. I'll just give you a couple of questions in a row and then we can figure out how we're doing for time. Maybe the chair can give me a heads-up as to where we're at.
In terms of exports, are you able to give us the breakdown between crude oil, synthetic crude oil, bitumen, natural gas, electricity, and refined petroleum products? Can you give us an estimate on what those accompanying export revenues are and the breakdown of which countries those exports are going to?
Can you also give a little more specifics on the countries Canada imports its energy products from and their related breakdowns? I would be especially interested in looking for facts relating to the oil and gas imported for use in eastern Canadian refineries. I agree with you that Canada has the world-leading skills and technology to continue to provide energy to the world. I wonder if you have any estimates or predictions of global energy demand, and also about the potential value of our exports to other countries, if we are able to achieve access to diverse markets beyond the U.S.