Fortunately, if I look at Alberta's industrial heartland, we're very well positioned from a feedstock cost advantage, so that gives a structural cost advantage to the projects that would locate in our area.
The opportunity in our area, as you mentioned, is the value-add. To take a specific example like propane, it is one of the components that is naturally forming with the natural gas in the ground. Natural gas comes out of the ground, and a big component of that is methane but there are other components such as ethane, propane and butane.
Upgrading propane to an intermediate product like polypropylene multiplies its value by five. That's the opportunity we're talking about. Taking the raw product to just an intermediate upgraded product enables it to bring five times as much revenue to our region.
There is tremendous opportunity, and there are structural advantages to the industrial heartland with respect to the competitiveness of the feedstock in the region, as well as all the infrastructure and the clustering benefits that have happened in the industrial heartland.
However, a number of things are important to mention with regard to what is happening with the provincial government, and also what the federal government can do.
Ms. Tremblay, do you want to start talking to some of those points?