Thank you for the question.
I think it's up to our political leaders to talk about what goes into these regulatory reviews. There is more environmental study, engineering studies, transparency, and evaluation now than at any point in our history. The outcomes of these systems on energy, including pipelines, will allow us to move our energy to markets in a seamless way with an extraordinary safety record.
When we talk about social licence, I would argue that the social licence arguments have already been made. We just need to start talking about them, more loudly and clearly, at all levels of government.
Let's talk about $80 billion in 2015 from the largest private sector investor that went into hiring families and workers and employing family businesses across western Canada, and $17 billion in taxes across the country that goes into hiring nurses and teachers. It's 500,000 people, directly and indirectly.
There have been studies showing that over the course of 10 years, the oil and gas industry will contribute $7.6 trillion to the Canadian GDP. When we look at how this impacts provinces across the country, we see that 8% of all oil sands jobs are in the province of Ontario. The oil sands employs some 300 aboriginal companies in 54 communities, and over the past 14 years has contributed $10 billion to aboriginal companies.
When we look at other suppliers and companies, we see there are 2,300 companies outside of the province of Alberta that supply services and manufacturing to the oil and gas industry. There are 1,100 in the province of Ontario and 200 in the province of Quebec. This is an incredibly spread-out industry that impacts many families and businesses that should be supported across the country.