Thank you for the question.
I'd like to make two points.
The first, I think, was central in the thinking around ensuring that the pipeline could be built. There is just no good reason for Canada to be giving money away to America for free. There is no reason for us to allow that differential to exist. When there is a big differential, that is money that goes directly into the United States—into the U.S. economy—to benefit U.S. refiners and U.S. consumers. It's money we're taking away from Canada.
I believe that we have a lot of needs in Canada. I think we need to invest in our health care system. We need to invest in education. We need to invest in infrastructure for housing. By closing that differential, we're getting more money for Canadians, both in terms of money in the economy, jobs in the economy and also direct revenues for federal and provincial governments.
In terms of the global picture, this is also a project that supports our own national economic security. Given the illegal Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it actually supports the energy security of the western alliance.
I have been having conversations with some of our partners who have specifically said that this pipeline is going to make it possible for us to further constrain Russia and Russia's sales of its energy into the global market. That is really significant.