Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, everyone, for being here. This has been very informative, and it's great to have the expertise you're bringing to the table as we conclude the study.
Mr. Owen, you said that you've been involved with this file since 2001. That's the year I graduated from law school, and I'm now 47 years old. It has been a long haul for you to work on that file. It's pretty much like a job for life. I'm sure you're trying it not to be, but that's the reality. What I'm getting at is that the context you provided us was very important, which is that the system they've made in the U.S., the laws they've passed and the structure they have, has made it so that the industry can sue any time it wants and stop the process.
It's extremely difficult for us as Canada, no matter what political party, to really put a structure in place so that we don't need to deal with this and you can move on to another file. For the purposes of this study, where do you think it ends, and does it? If it doesn't, how do you see this unfolding in the next five to ten years?