Thank you, Ms. Kenny. I'm going to have to cut you off there.
Thank you, Mr. Calkins.
I'll take the next five-minute round.
In my constituency there would be a lot of empty homes in small towns if it weren't for the oil and gas sector of our economy, particularly the oil sands. A lot of people live in small towns that would otherwise be, in some cases, almost ghost towns. If you're working in the oil sands, and often it's on a two weeks in, two weeks out basis or some kind of arrangement like that, you can live anywhere—and not just in Alberta; you can live anywhere across the country.
Just a couple of weeks ago I had a meeting in the constituency, and a gentleman from Newfoundland said, "You might as well roll up the streets of our town", in his colourful Newfoundland dialect, “if it weren't for the oil sector in Alberta.” It was that clear. The impact goes far beyond Alberta. It clearly goes to Newfoundland and other Atlantic Canadian provinces.
Ms. Mitchell, let me get you to comment on that. Have you seen substantial impact from the oil and gas sector in Canada—enough that it would really affect a small town if the activity weren't there in Alberta, in Saskatchewan, in British Columbia?
I know there's not as much impact in New Brunswick, but I want to get a sense of how much impact there is, beyond the engineering companies that you talked about earlier.