Thanks again for the opportunity to be here.
I think the government has introduced a number of key pieces of legislation that deal with, in the short term, some of the great challenges we face as a country. When we look around the world, we see the immense geopolitical tensions. We saw the invasion of Ukraine. We have people in our own country dealing with affordability crises.
We have a bountiful resource here in Canada that the world desperately needs, and we've spent the last 10 years as a lost opportunity, a lost decade for Canada. The legislation that has been introduced recently, I think, is a step forward in the right direction. I think it addresses some of the major challenges in the short term in terms of building infrastructure in this project.
Let's be frank. At the end of the day, without infrastructure, without port access, without pipelines, Canada can't get its products to market. Then, at the end of the day, I think long term we need to start looking at creating the regulatory framework that allows capital to come back into Canada so that we can show the world that we can get stuff done and we can get things built.
Keep in mind what I really want to focus in on is how we spend a lot of time speaking about infrastructure and the lack of infrastructure to get our products to market, but one of the things I'll point out is what's behind that infrastructure. When we can build that infrastructure, we can start hiring tens of thousands of drillers and service rig contractors all across Western Canada. We can start building and manufacturing steel that could potentially go into new drilling rigs and new service rigs and new pieces of equipment that could unlock everything from helium to lithium to new oil and gas reserves. This is a huge opportunity for Canada to look at this in the sense of, yes, we have challenges, but there's an immense number of opportunities that we can take advantage of.