Natural Resources committee  Ezeflow is a Quebec-based manufacturer that manufactures steel and other fabricated parts for the oil sands. It's a case where they were able to access, as Jay has outlined, a growing market that provided an opportunity for their business to grow. What I love about meeting some

Natural Resources committee  We're calculating some of the jobs numbers now. Unfortunately, the reporting.... A thing that the oil sands don't do well, necessarily, is track all of their contracts between the construction owners and the engineering procurement and construction management companies and those

Natural Resources committee  I think the north leads the way in some of those dual credit programs whether it's in Fort St. John, British Columbia, where there is some great work through Northern Lights College with local high schools.... And when you meet someone who's in their third year of apprenticeship

Natural Resources committee  It does increase that funnel. It attracts people into the skilled trades and increases the front end of the funnel. In that regard, we think it's a step in the right direction. We know there's more out there. Our industry, whether it's specific companies or CAPP, has a huge range

Natural Resources committee  Certainly. We supported that when it was proposed, and we'd still like to see it go ahead. In fact, tomorrow I'm meeting with the UA and we're having a discussion about what other ways we, as an industry, should think about to support enhanced labour mobility. I think Alberta's p

Natural Resources committee  Absolutely.

Natural Resources committee  That technology is spread out absolutely across the country. I sometimes say in jest that it's not the dot.com but it's the person who is going to find the solutions to fix tailings who is going to be Canada's greatest high-tech entrepreneur, that we need people coast to coast, a

Natural Resources committee  As Mr. Myers has outlined, when you have a robust industry that's able to invest in new technologies, then there's a competitive advantage to these technologies, and we could have a situation where with COSIA and the pooling of intellectual capital and then intellectual property

Natural Resources committee  Yes. In particular, people have the impression that the average oil and gas worker is an engineer or a geophysicist, but increasingly the average oil and gas worker is a graduate from a technical college or institute, a skilled tradesworker in essence or a power engineer or an en

Natural Resources committee  I don't know how the contractual arrangements with the specific brokerages are made; however, I can speak to a lot of the engagements I've had with the UA and others who have had similar situations to what you describe with the ironworkers. Although workers who are in the trades

Natural Resources committee  Again, it's hard to say because of the disclosure situation. Many of the public pensions will have their ratios. The asset managers we checked with in about 2011 reported about 20% to 40% exposure to Canadian oil and gas.

Natural Resources committee  Sure. Aboriginal employment in oil and gas, in my view, is a huge success story for the industry. The oil sands were developed back in the 1970s and with a keen eye to delivering local benefits, such that the development in that region was not to go forward unless local people

Natural Resources committee  I'll go ahead. Streamlining the regulatory process provides a level of investor assurance that there will be a decision in a set time period. That is essential so that these projects don't move on and drag on for decades, as we've seen around some of the pipeline projects. I wo

Natural Resources committee  The key there is that we have to have another customer, so that market diversification will allow us not to suffer a discount or see inefficiencies in the market such as we have seen over the past couple of years with the flood of crude oil at Cushing. That was a good example o

Natural Resources committee  That's absolutely the case, as long as they're invested in our industry, as many of them are, for anywhere from 20% to 40%.