In my neck of the woods—I come from Saskatchewan where we border Alberta—and we have a lot of energy and agriculture. Those are our driving economic drivers within Battlefords—Lloydminster—Meadow Lake.
We've seen private investment leave. Even on a national scale, we've seen this. We've seen for energy companies that the regulations and the red tape that have been placed by this Liberal government have actually chased investment down south. That would affect private investment, which ultimately.... I mean, public investment is basically tax dollars. The government is taking that, whether it's through taxation and, on a provincial level, royalties, which they then are using to put into social services, whether that's our health care, our education or those wraparound supports that Mr. Binger was talking about and are needed to help people in different situations.
Would you not agree that private investment is better than having the public tax dollars invested in these projects?