Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair.
As the title of our study says, we're looking at the cross-country benefits of the oil and gas industry. In the last few days, I've often asked witnesses about benefits in areas where one normally doesn't think about. One of our witnesses, or a couple of our witnesses, talked about benefits to parts of Atlantic Canada that you don't think of as being predominant in this industry, for example, New Brunswick was talking about possibly having enough development to get off equalization and be a “have” province.
Mr. Smillie, if there was substantive development in provinces like New Brunswick, Quebec, if things like tight shale start to open up, what would be the ability for your members to supply the labour for that? You talked earlier about 51 being the age mode for your members. Would you have enough workforce if all of a sudden there was an explosion of growth in Quebec and New Brunswick? How would you deal with that situation?