Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all our witnesses for being here today. There's a lot of information and I'm rifling through everybody's testimony here to get down to really what we're hoping to achieve in this study. I appreciate the detail. Of course, there are lots of numbers and figures that at times are a bit staggering in nature when we're talking billions and trillions of dollars.
Being a member of Parliament for the Yukon, I know we're pretty localized, small, and we like to bring things back to that kitchen table kind of benefit that this sector brings to the Canadian economy.
I will get a chance to ask Ms. Allan a couple of questions on her presentation, but what's interesting is that one of the remarks in it was that we're being given a picture of the industry that the industry wants us to see. I guess what I see, and it has been articulated in some of these that I think are most meaningful to the Canadian public, is the largest employer of first nations people in Canada is the oil sands. I see development corporations in the Yukon being built not just around the energy sector but development projects, and for all intents and purposes development projects can be one and the same when we're talking about benefits purely. We see a quality of life that we haven't seen before, I think that would be the same realized in Alberta. I see Yukon workers who have gotten skilled training jobs and have left the territory, and continue to leave the territory and come back to seek jobs in Alberta, and work and then return those dollars to our territory.
Maybe, Ms. Annesley, you could talk about just what you see in terms of the Canadian workforce migrating around the country to find jobs, and what they do in terms of bringing that back to their home provinces when they seek employment. And what is the industry looking at doing to enhance and develop jobs within the workforce's own provinces to keep people working where they live? I think that while they all appreciate moving around to get those jobs, it would be nice to have people at home working as well. So maybe touch on those two things for us, if you can.