Wow, that's stunning. That certainly has to be in our report. I had no idea. In British Columbia, of course, we have 24-7 crossings in various parts of the province. I had no idea Alberta was not getting the support for border crossings, so thank you for that.
Madame Tremblay and Monsieur Plamondon, you are very strong advocates for value-added industries, and I commend the work you've done as a non-profit. It's quite amazing. I come out of the oil industry myself. I worked at the Shellburn oil refinery in Burnaby, British Columbia. It's now closed, and we've seen that happen across the country. Value-added firms have been closing for decades now, in the oil industry of course, in the lumber industry, and we're also seeing this with mining.
We're exporting raw logs, raw bitumen and raw minerals, rather than adding value and making sure that the products that come from our country are actually value-added and we get all the jobs that come with that.
What have been the elements of your success? I note that you commend the Alberta government for attracting $3.5 billion in investment. That's important, so obviously the provincial government has been very supportive of value-added.
Obviously, over the last few decades, it has been a major policy problem, so what do we need to do in this country to get back to value-added?