I certainly agree with the second part of your question.
I think that one of the challenges Canada has is adjusting to how very significant the oil and gas industry has become in our economy. I calculate that it's almost twice as large now as the auto industry. I think it's relatively easy for us in eastern Canada to think of it as a western phenomenon, but the more I learn about it, the more I realize that the implications of that industry are being felt all across the country, in every line of work.
One of the ones I mentioned is that there is a huge preoccupation of our membership with human resources and skills. There aren't enough people in western Canada to service just those industries, let alone all the other industries that are supported by it. So an entire national agenda, a national strategy around manpower related to natural resources, is appropriate.
But I also want to make the point—and I'll keep my answers shorter in the future—that I was in Newfoundland a couple of weeks ago. It was an under-employed province for all of my life; now it's an over-employed province. They have massive natural resources projects that are going to make it possible for the province to be entirely employed and will require many immigrants.
In P.E.I., one of their major plans is to move to wind energy in a very big way—I think it's up to 40%. And there are oil and gas developments all over the east coast.
There's the Ring of Fire, the Plan Nord, there's no part of this country that is not heavily involved in effective and efficient exploitation of natural resources.