I think you're very right. There has been an impact on employment across the country in terms of sourcing workers from across the country in order to work in new development projects in Alberta.
You cited examples of where companies have tried to accommodate workers' concerns--about having to pick up and move the whole family outright, across the country--by flying them in, letting them do basically long-distance commuting for a time, and then flying them back. That's certainly something that we've seen, especially through the peak of 2007-08.
It's not so common today, as the industry is sort of in reverse, but that's a short-term phenomenon. I think we'll get back, as we talked about earlier, to a period where, once the economy recovers, we'll be having to source labour from across the country again, and from outside the country again.
I think it's also important to remember that it's a national industry. It's not just an Alberta industry that sources from around the country. It's a national industry. We have oil and gas exploration and development activity around the country.
We've seen developments of offshore processing off Newfoundland and Labrador, and off Nova Scotia. To the extent that those are continuing and growing, they demand labour right there. So Newfoundlanders and Nova Scotians have been able to find jobs in the oil and gas industry by staying right in their provinces. To the extent that industry is taking an interest in doing more exploration and development activity there, then that creates more jobs there.
Likewise, north of 60, there has been more interest and activity in the Mackenzie Delta. Certainly there has been a lot of growth in Saskatchewan, in British Columbia, even Manitoba, that didn't have very much interest before. There was always a little bit of drilling, but not as much interest as has been displayed in the last couple of years. There has been quite a bit of growth there as well.
Even Quebec and Ontario do have a bit of their own oil and gas production.