International Trade committee  The production from Hibernia was already in the marketplace, so this U.S. oil that has been coming into the market in recent years is displacing the offshore production that was in the marketplace. It can come by rail. Some of it could come by marine movement from the U.S. Gulf C

International Trade committee  I would share those comments. There are two aspects to the buy American thing. One is for government procurement, but other pieces creep into the private sector, which is of course particularly worrying. I believe the Government of Canada is pursuing a targeted approach to that b

International Trade committee  It's the growth in the light oil production in the United States, which is the result of bringing the advanced technologies to bear. This involves the multiple horizontal drilling and multiple fracturing.

International Trade committee  There are a couple of places but initially it was North Dakota.

International Trade committee  That's correct.

International Trade committee  The refined products go back and forth, and some of those manifest themselves through the petrochemical industry.

International Trade committee  Yes, if you follow it in that way, absolutely, yes.

International Trade committee  We've been looking at this issue for our industry for some time. We did make some proposals to U.S. customs, but they have to work within the framework of the rules that are there and they weren't able to accommodate our changes. We do have some ideas for a more generic approach

International Trade committee  I was referring to the eastern Canadian refineries that are not connected to the pipeline system.

International Trade committee  That's correct.

International Trade committee  The majority of crude oil imports into eastern Canada are now coming from the United States. They used to be from offshore, from a variety of countries including Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and so on. There are still imports from all of those offshore countries, but the proportion has

International Trade committee  We need to find a way to address the issues that are causing the process to bog down, which relate to an approach to aboriginal engagement that will be more satisfactory for all concerned than perhaps we have now. Of course, we always need to address the environment as we go thro

International Trade committee  We wouldn't see a renegotiation of NAFTA as altering the basic market structure, assuming we come out of it with essentially a free market policy for energy, as we did in 1988. The decisions of where product will go will be driven by relative market opportunities, relative compet

International Trade committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and honourable members of the committee, for the opportunity to appear before you today. My name is Nick Schultz and I am vice-president of pipeline regulation for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. My association represents the upstream oil a