Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you all for being here today. As a former public servant, I greatly value your contributions. I have a deep appreciation for the knowledge and expertise that you bring. I am so glad we get to direct some of that toward this study.
Some of the items that we're looking at, as my colleague, Mr. Malette, was mentioning, include infrastructure solutions. Like Mr. Simard was mentioning, we're looking at barriers. We're broadly looking at ways that government can support domestic production and processing.
Natural resources, of course, are in the provincial jurisdiction. That is hard fought in some cases, as it was in my home province of Alberta. I am sure nobody on this committee wants to step on that, but there is, of course, a federal role with tax policy, trade measures, environment, industrial policy, the effects on demand that those policies create, strategic purchases, indigenous relations and more. It's a lot and it would be easy to lose focus, given that sort of broad touching of the area.
I'm hoping you can expand on your views of the federal role and tell this committee the most important thing that we can do to direct our efforts toward supporting domestic production and processing.