Fisheries committee  Yes, I can, sir.

Fisheries committee  I'm fine on that question. I don't have any comment.

Fisheries committee  I'll go back to Ms. Lindsay's question around best practices. In respect of the pipeline association and the pipelines, there are a lot of best practices that have been put in place over a long time. A lot of the definitions in place, a lot of the guidances, are pretty straightfo

Fisheries committee  Yes, there's a long history of those practices. Just ensuring that they are being used is important, but I don't think we need to specify each and every one of them.

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much for the question. I think the point is exactly that. Before, you had the operational statements; now you have the MOU with the NEB where these things are assessed in the context of historical remediation effects. Bear in mind that the pipelines are only.... T

Fisheries committee  Absolutely. I think that a lot of these projects that we're talking about today are major projects. They take years to get into effect, and as we said at the outset here, the principles of effective regulation are certainty, transparency, and timeliness—not necessarily timelines,

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good afternoon. As mentioned, my name is Chris Bloomer. I am president and CEO of the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association. We represent 12 major transmission pipeline companies, operating 119,000 kilometres of pipelines and transporting 97% of Canada's

Finance committee  You mean the carbon tax overall?

Finance committee  Well, it's going to have an impact. It is another tax. I think everybody's going to pay for that. We haven't quantified at this point what that's going to be, because we're also working in Alberta with a CO2 tax and so on, but it's going to be a burden on everyone. The fact of

Finance committee  You're talking about the additional pension plan. Well, again, it's an additional burden on individuals, and it takes away from disposable income, and that's an impact.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Obviously, we need these pipelines. We need access to markets on the Pacific basin and the Atlantic basin. We can use Canadian crude to back out imports. We can create jobs, sustainable jobs, for the long term, so it's critically important. We don't need

Finance committee  The submission reflects the potential capital investment from third parties. It reflects the GDP growth and so on. It is an engine of growth for Canada and it will fund a lot of the things that have been talked about today in terms of the tax revenue, royalty revenue, and so on.

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. It's a pleasure to be here with this committee on behalf of the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association to present some short thoughts here. As a reminder, CEPA represents the 12 major transmission pipeline companies across Canada, which operate 1

Transport committee  Well, the pipelines that CEPA represents are all NEB-regulated, so there is regulation across the country. The provinces have their own regulatory framework, and it's pretty straightforward. Within the provinces, if there's a designated body, it would trigger a review. Having the