You also mentioned the $1 billion trust. I'm not sure, but I believe you said it should have been more than $1 billion over three years.
That $1 billion was announced specifically to help the manufacturing and forestry sectors. Most of the manufacturing and forestry jobs that were lost were from Ontario and Quebec.
Mr. Godbout, a researcher at Sherbrooke University, appeared before the finance committee about a month ago. His analyses showed that the $1 billion was allocated on a provincial per capita basis. Since the number of jobs in the manufacturing sector was higher in Ontario and in Quebec, the distribution per lost job came to some $2,000 in Quebec and Ontario, but to some $20,000 per job lost in Alberta, where far fewer jobs were lost.
Did you know that?