I mentioned earlier, I think before you were in the room, that the most recent year for which statistics are published by Statistics Canada is 2006. I don't have the exact numbers in front of me, but I can tell you that the oil and gas industry led all industries in Canada by a wide margin in terms of not only capital investment on environmental protection and mitigation measures but energy efficiency improvement technology. In other words, they were using less energy to produce their output than any other industry in Canada. The oil and gas industry was number one.
We're here to talk about our industry, not about provinces, but Alberta also led all provinces, including Ontario, by a wide margin in terms of investment, largely due to the oil and gas sector's role in that, and in terms of spending, not only capital tax on new equipment but also ongoing operational expenditures on environmental protection measures, environmental mitigation measures, and energy efficiency improvement. I know the oil and gas industry is often criticized by those who don't have that kind of information. It actually, I think, was a real eye-opener. Everybody I've shown those statistics to is surprised by them. I'd be happy to supply those to this committee, although I would point out that they were publicized by Statistics Canada on its own website back in November and they are publicly available.