Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to all of the witnesses.
First of all, I'd like to direct some questions to Mr. Detomasi.
You have expertise in international business, which is something I think we read when we went through your brief earlier. You talked about the global issues and the fact that we have 2 billion people who have no real access to energy and 4 billion who have a little, and the rest of us act as though we are going to manage the whole world for them. I think that's really part of it. How we solve energy for the world's poor is something that we should recognize and be careful about.
There was also discussion about the sanctions as far as Russia is concerned. I spent some time with the OSCE, and we were talking about energy security, food security and, of course, security in Europe. On the discussion on sanctions and what that had done, it had taken any European industrial base and had reduced it to ruin. If the world is going to buy anything, it had to be bought from China or India. Therefore, we supported the war effort that way, so the concept of sanctions was not really something that was going to solve a lot of problems.
You also talked about our American neighbours who, on the first day of the last administration, shut down Keystone XL, thus stopping another source for our energy.
These are some of the issues that we deal with, and of course, we have people who talk about how you have to get rid of the oil sands. Mr. Birol from the International Energy Agency indicated that the difference between the heavy oil in Fort McMurray and conventional oil, if you took that differential as far as carbon is concerned, would be the equivalent of one day's emission in China. Therefore, does it matter if China gets its act together on January 1 or January 2? Yet, we are able to demonize an industry that means so much, not just for the world, as I had spoken about, but also for Canadians. I wonder if you could comment on some of the global aspects of Canadian energy.