I would believe that without the spinoffs and the direct moneys from oil and gas development, our province would be in a very sad position indeed today. It has been a tremendous boon, a tremendous windfall. I always say that it could be much more. As my colleague Mr. Lomond said, we're probably looking at a 30-year window. We're well into it now.
Who's looking beyond 30 years? There are not too many people. I think we need to be really focused on the fact that we'll reach peak oil, and then it will start to drop off. We really need to look at the sustainable industries that sustained us for all those years leading up to oil. They still can be there and can be great drivers of our economy in the future, and now's the time to be at it. Now is the time to be developing and to be looking in those directions. There are lots of other resources out there that we have put on the back burner. The skill sets to even pursue some of them have disappeared.
We're missing a tremendous opportunity in enjoying this brief boom in cash.