We are basically a resource-based country, and when we compare our productivity to other OECD countries, especially the United States.... To give an example, in Alberta, when the price of oil goes from $35 a barrel to $72 a barrel, that would have enormous repercussions in their level of productivity, but it really wouldn't be based on the normal determinants such as innovation, education, research, and skills training that you would expect to be the driving determinants of increases in productivity. It's basically a function of the fundamental resource basically doubling in value. You take the aggregate GDP, you divide by the number of workers, and your productivity has gone up.
Is it really not a false comparison here?