Thank you.
In my constituency I have a lot of what we call the refinery role, but in fact it's value added from the oil and gas sector in the Fort Saskatchewan area. There are tens of billions of dollars of investment, and it continues each year. There are thousands of jobs in that area. Still, they pale in comparison with the jobs in the exploration and production and operations parts of the oil and gas sector, but it clearly is important.
In previous studies, in fact, we've had it pointed out very clearly that.... We'd all love more value added, and that's good: the more we get, the better off we all are. But the highest percentage of jobs in the oil and gas sector will remain in the exploration-production-operations ends of the industry.
Mr. Burt, have you done any studies in the past that have dealt with this or had a look at it, and what have those studies found?