Natural Resources committee  I'll go to the first part of the question, and then deal with the last part in a minute. I'm going to ask Carol, my DG of energy efficiency, to also take a stab at some of the question. We're significantly proud of our Office of Energy Efficiency at Natural Resources Canada. It's a big player on the energy file.

Natural Resources committee  We are working across the country on energy efficiency programs. We'll get into the oil and gas sector in a minute. The stat that I gave was not about the federal government. It was actually the energy efficiency savings across the country from measures we have worked on and have implemented coast to coast.

Natural Resources committee  Twenty-six billion dollars. I don't know what the overall percentage is. I don't know if anyone here at the table—but of the $26 billion, $22 billion is from oil and gas. So you can see fairly considerable overall revenue comes from the oil and gas sector.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, I'd be happy to. The first thing to remember is this. Sometimes we just focus on Alberta and oil and gas, but as the map showed in my presentation, if you look at that as shovels in the ground, every province has pretty much an energy play, whether it be oil and gas, hydroelectricity, and so on.

Natural Resources committee  Maybe they won't know about the array of spinoff jobs that come from the industry. A lot of people think about these jobs as direct jobs within the industry, construction or operations jobs, but when you look across the country, we are talking about an energy resource boom, which has secondary and tertiary effects—engineering jobs, manufacturing jobs, financial and technical jobs, scientific jobs, and on you go.

Natural Resources committee  Sure, I'd be happy to. There are several different ways to take a run at the question. One of the most significant is to think about energy employment statistics, and I'll give you a smattering of the kinds of stats that we have. In Newfoundland, energy jobs account for 4,500; in Québec, 23,000; Manitoba, 7,300; Saskatchewan, close to 20,000; Alberta, of course, 150,000; B.C., 25,000 and growing.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Chair. It's Jay Khosla here. Just building on that last comment, we do sincerely appreciate the opportunity to be here, and we completely understand the importance of this study. We also look forward to receiving the final report, so we can improve our practices within the Energy Sector of Natural Resources Canada.