i'm deeply is of course to have the premier alison redford of alberta. we have to return ministers with us today. diana mclane is a minister at dallas and the minister of inter-governmental affairs command of course in addition to the ambassador we are pleased with the u.s. ambassador to canada as well. the topic, the specific topic of course is the keystone pipeline which is most famous pipeline of the history of the world and all the more so that hasn't been built and it is quite an achievement. but also there's a larger energy security aspect to this which is behind that the scale of the alberta energy producing country. it is 2.4 million barrels of oil a day output total equivalent to a major opec countries for instance through the same scale as venezuela which indicates the strategic importance of that resource, and on top of that, the 1.8 million barrels a day if that was a country unto itself would be the largest single source of u.s. oil imports. in other words, there is a lot of significance in the discussion that we are going to have today, and

i'm very pleased to -- of course, to have premier alison redford, the premier of the province of alberta. we have two of her ministers with her here today -- diana mcqueen, who is the minster of the environment, and cal dallas, who is the minister of intergovernmental affairs. and of course, in addition to ambassador doer, we're very pleased former u.s. ambassador to canada giffin is here as well. the specific topic, of course, is the keystone pipeline, which is the most famous pipeline in the history of the world. and all the more so that it hasn't even been built. so it is quite an achievement. but there's a larger energy security aspect to this, which behind that is the scale of alberta as an energy-producing country. its 2.4 million barrels a day of oil output total are equivalent to a major opec country. for instance, it's really the same scale as venezuela, which indicates the strategic importance of that resource. and on top of that, the 1.8 million barrels a day of oil sands, if that was a country onto itself would be the largest single source of u.s. oil imports. so in other wor

we're delighted to have the premier of alberta, alison redford here as our guest this day.e're also delighted ambassador doer and the other distinguished members of the canadian government and the alberta government who are able to join us and other