Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to each of the witnesses who appeared here today. I found what each of you had to say very informative.
Being from Atlantic Canada, from New Brunswick, let me start by saying that I would like to say thank you to those in the energy sector across the country and to the workers who have worked in that sector, many of whom travelled from Atlantic Canada out to the west to work and then came back and were able to help provide for their families.
Also, through transfer payments, we were able to have those kinds of health care services maintained in our province, schools continued to be built and we were able to have infrastructure, due in large part to those in our energy sectors.
I say thank you. Thank you for taking the time and coming here today and sharing your perspectives. We do appreciate that.
I have some perhaps rapid-fire questions for a few of the witnesses.
I'll start with you, Mr. McTeague.
Canada has amazing potential in the resource sector. We have some of the best environmental regulations in the world related to energy extraction and resource development, and the world is wanting more Canadian energy. They are demanding more Canadian energy.
What I'm hearing back home from folks in my region in Atlantic Canada is this: Why aren't we supplying the world with more Canadian energy when they're demanding it? Why can't we replace dictator oil with good democratic oil and energy resources when the world so desperately needs it and help transition the world from coal in certain regions, perhaps, over to good Canadian liquefied natural gas?
I wonder if you could speak to that and then be followed up by Ms. Johnson as quickly as possible, because I have several questions.
Mr. McTeague, it's over to you.