In fact the Canadian Energy Research Institute, an independent not-for-profit organization, actually identified that in the oil sands industry alone $218 billion was going to be invested over the next 25 years, and for every dollar invested it is $8 worth of economic value. One-third of that is outside of Alberta.
Some friends and I got together and started to add up all the promises the NDP had been making in relation to funding. If the NDP leader gets his way and shuts down the oil sands industry, is there any air of reality regarding the ability to make these payments and follow through on the promises that he has done?