I think you spoke to a question about distribution. Who wins and who loses is not just a question of adding up big numbers and seeing which is the biggest. Canadians are divided into all kinds of different groups, including consumers and people who work at workplaces that are affected by the cost of oil, and all kinds of economic activities that are affected by the level of the dollar, which is in turn affected by the price of oil. All these tertiary effects and effects that spin on out affect people in different ways, so we can't be cavalier by saying that Canadians win or lose, without doing a lot of work to see that there are some people who are winning and some people who are losing, and they're not always the same people.
On August 27th, 2008. See this statement in context.