Thank you, Chair.
I want to put on the record my apologies to all our witnesses for being late. To our friends from Victoria and Burnaby, hello as well.
Madam Bérard-Brown, I'll start where we just ended, if you don't mind.
I represent northwestern British Columbia, the place for much of the conversation around the northern gateway, and for the last 40 years, the conversation around whether supertankers can move safety through our waters with oil.
One of the questions that came up consistently, that even just recently I'm still not able to get a sufficient answer from the government on, is the nature of diluted bitumen and the nature of diluted bitumen when it touches water, salt water and fresh water. Do either of your associations have research that tells us what that nature is?
Of course, answering that question first dictates how we manage, how we do safety protocols, cleanup protocols. Parenthetically, that was never answered through the entire northern gateway process, yet the government of the day still released approval despite not knowing what we would do if a cleanup was required. Do we have research from industry?