Thank you, Chair. I appreciate that. That's kind of an inside joke. Sometimes I get hot under the collar when I'm told I'm running out of time.
I'd like to thank the witnesses for being here and spending their time with us today.
Mr. Cronkhite, I'll direct many of my questions to you today.
As a first-generation Albertan with family in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and New Brunswick, it's always nice to have familiar people here at the table. You mentioned in your presentation the Canadian energy strategy. As you know, we're undertaking this study under that umbrella. One of the 10 focus areas of the Canadian energy strategy is a recommendation about improving the timeliness and certainty of regulatory approval decision-making processes while maintaining rigorous protection of the environment and the public interest, which I think are two priorities that we all share regardless of the province or region we're from or the political party we might represent.
I have a general question for you on that front in terms of interprovincial transportation and transmission of energy, regulatory approval, and then more specifically, after, towards regional collaboration. As you might know, the federal government has undertaken four major regulatory reviews. There is a critical infrastructure project that's important to my province, and it's important to yours. We've seen recently what happens when there's a lack of clarity and certainty around regulatory requirements, and the rules get changed at the last minute. That can mean billions of dollars of investments and thousands of jobs being put at risk.
Has New Brunswick Power to your knowledge, or anybody in the province, been consulted during the course of the consultations on the four major regulatory reviews by the federal government that have been happening for the past two years—I understand they hope to be legislating on them in the next year—and if there are any specific ambitions, concerns, hopes, gaps, or opportunities that you wanted to address on that front?