I had my finance team go back and pull up how much money we had contributed to the governments of Canada. It was $147 million, and that is payroll, but not GST, over 10 years. That was an astounding number. We're not a large business. By definition, we'd be medium-sized. In the oil sands, we would be a small player.
We have a staff of 850 employees, and if times were better I could see us doubling that size without much effort. It would be a lot of effort, but we could get there quite easily. All of those people buy vehicles made in Canada, food made in Canada and houses made in Canada. There's a massive trickle-down. They're flying across the country to get home to their families. We employ people all across the country, from Newfoundland to British Columbia and the territories.
Also, as I mentioned, we have eight indigenous partnerships and a couple more that I'm working on. The indigenous communities that we work in have been neglected and oppressed for generations. Now, with the focus and the spending of resource companies ensuring that they're gaining meaningful employment, we're seeing prosperity in places that have never seen it before. We're talking about developing-world poverty in our own country, and now these people have jobs. That's what it means.
There's a massive trickle-down across this country.