From an economic standpoint, the risk is not planning it. The Province of British Columbia has estimated that the economic impact would be a reduction of $200 million in economic activity.
The benefit we enjoy in British Columbia is that we have the most diverse economy in Canada. Part of that is that when we look at our trading partners, we measure, obviously, and look at east-west comparisons, and when we look at national or subnational governments, our largest trading partners are the United States, Ontario, China, Japan, then Alberta. Our orientation is very much—because we sit, obviously, in a gateway port from which $500 million in goods a day travel in and out of the port.... Then again there's the Port of Prince Rupert, which is very much tethered to Winnipeg and points east from there. Our orientation is very much to look at economic growth by diversifying.