Natural Resources committee  Yes, absolutely. I may have misspoken, but I didn't intend to give the impression that we think everything is working well. We know that we have strides to make to gain the trust of Canadians and to be as transparent and as effective a regulator as Canadians deserve. The questio

Natural Resources committee  Absolutely. We've been working since we went through the audit, and we would, of course, have seen the findings before they were made public, which is the general process. Once we recognized, through the Auditor General's work, the gaps that we had in some of our own record keepi

Natural Resources committee  I will give you our perspective, but unfortunately I am the wrong person to offer you facts and figures. We believe that transporting oil by pipelines is the safest mode of transporting oil we have. When you transport oil by rail, often railcars go through municipalities, and if

Natural Resources committee  We haven't done comparisons ourselves, but we are aware of comparisons that others have done. They generally show that pipelines are safer than rail.

Natural Resources committee  Just to clarify, the reference case actually doesn't put in a pipeline constraint. In our reference case, which has oil production growing to 6.1 million barrels per day, all the oil would find transportation to market.

Natural Resources committee  I will say no, and maybe expand on that. I don't think we see things that are not being done. The National Energy Board, like all energy regulators, is a creature of statute. Our responsibilities and our mandate are set out in the National Energy Board Act and the Canadian Envir

Natural Resources committee  The interim measures announced by the Minister of Natural Resources and the Minister of Environment and Climate Change are incremental to the National Energy Board's normal reviews of pipeline applications. The measures are ones that the ministers believe will increase confidence

Natural Resources committee  The measures that the National Energy Board will take include reaching out and engaging Canadians in serious and meaningful ways, helping Canadians understand what the board's full life cycle of regulatory oversight looks like, including what we do in certain circumstances, and h

Natural Resources committee  I'm not sure we actually see shortcomings in our capacity to regulate projects. The board receives an allocation of funds from Parliament and puts those to the challenges of pipeline regulation in an appropriate way. If we didn't think we had the sufficient resources to regulate

Natural Resources committee  We've taken a number of steps over the past two years to change the way that we regulate, to become more transparent, to reach out to Canadians, to engage them more, to find out what their concerns are, to find out how much they know about the National Energy Board, and to try to

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for inviting us here today. Both Ms. Milutinovic and I are honoured to appear before the committee today to discuss the future of Canada's oil and gas sector. We've provided the clerk with a few slides, and I'll make some brief comments on them. The Natio