Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to all of our witnesses here today.
Mr. Boag, I was looking through this document here, and some of the statistics around the kilometres of road and the volume of passenger travel around the country are pretty impressive.
When we have discussions about the oil and gas energy sector, a lot of times it seems that the overall sort of tone and tenor of it is that we're consuming this, but we don't ever really seem to drive down to the point that the consumption of oil and gas is not necessarily, in most cases, the end use. It's really a facilitator to do other things, to achieve other things. For example, it's for moving goods and supplies and services and people, for getting people to their jobs, and for getting products like critical medical supplies around the country. It really helps facilitate the movement of everything in our country, but I think a lot of that gets lost, in that we don't fully acknowledge that the consumption of that product is not the end option for us.
On that vein, what do pipelines do to help facilitate that movement of people and goods across the country for this nation?