Absolutely.
When we're talking about $20.5 billion lost to Canada's economic potential, that's our GDP. A GDP is not just a figure of corporate profits and stuff like that. It is wages for people. It is the money that's being spent in local businesses in those communities. It is the opportunities that come from it for people who study in such fields as engineering and petrochemicals more generally. This $20.5 billion in lost GDP is $20.5 billion that's lost in a mixture of profitability for Canadian companies but also, and I think most importantly, in terms of wages for the workers who work in those fields and the small businesses who rely on those workers, and other workers in that field, for their patronage.
