Yes. I think the reliance on the municipal census is always best, just as municipal governments spend money better than large federal governments do, in my opinion. The closer you are to the people, the better the job you do. In this particular case there has been a municipal census, because obviously there is a serious deficiency in their funds from the federal or provincial governments.
In this particular case, how can you not recognize that there has to be a problem? There's a 25% difference for the same year.
The difficulty is that people do select where they live. Look at it this way: we have 1.8 million people flying into our airspace every year, and 940,000 passengers are flying into just the regional airport, up from 150,000 nine years ago. You may say that those people don't live there, but somebody is living there and taking their spot when they're not there, so someone's always living there. Fifty per cent of the people in the emergency department in the local hospitals don't reside in Alberta. There are many things like that.
It's not like northern Ontario, where you have a cottage country and people come in for the summer and then leave. It's totally different. Those people come to Fort McMurray; there are up to 65,000 people who don't call Fort McMurray or the regional municipality home, but they're living there and they live there full time and they use our services. That's why you have to wait an hour and a half in line when you want a Tim Hortons coffee.
