Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Minister, thank you very much for being here today.
You talked about LNG quite a bit in your opening statement. Obviously that continued through the first round, and I think it's a good topic to talk about, because there are a lot of really exciting things happening. As you mentioned in your opening statement, last summer Canada began to export LNG to Asian markets from the west coast for the first time.
I'm wondering, Minister, if you could summarize for us what the LNG sector means for this country in terms of economic opportunities, specifically export-related. As we know, this is a key part of our government's promise to double non-U.S. exports over the next decade.