Good morning, gentlemen.
Thank you very much for joining us this morning and sharing the benefit of your expertise and experience with our committee. As you know, we're trying to understand, through this study, how we might improve and go forward with our energy data here in Canada.
I'll start with our wonderful colleague in the U.S.
By way of very quick background for you, a lot of testimony has indicated that we are gathering a lot of data. There's a lot of data coming in that's collected at the federal and provincial levels. It's collected by stakeholders and industry and so forth. Clearly, your agency has the responsibility of coordinating, analyzing, and then disseminating that data.
Prior to having that centralized approach, can you talk to us about what some of those challenges were? In other words, were you experiencing what we seem to be experiencing here by way of challenges?