Again, the Canadian oil and gas sector is part of a global industry. Canada supplies roughly 60% of its own need as far as petroleum is concerned. A lot of the things in this room were probably made with Canadian fuel at some point in time, which was probably shipped from Alberta to Ontario and then turned into something else.
We benefit from petroleum products in general in our daily lives to an extent that we don't even realize. How many of you drove in this morning? What was the seat of your car made of? The food that you ate this morning was probably produced using fertilizers that were produced with natural gas. The food was probably produced in Ontario and the fuel might have come from Alberta. The food you bought this morning was probably packaged in plastic. Again, there's a reason we're so much better off than our ancestors.
The thing is, we must not only focus on jobs. Yes, as another witness said earlier, you might say that there are few jobs created in the energy sector, but that's irrelevant because the business is capital intensive, and it provides all of these inputs that are essential to other lines of work. Canadians benefit from this from the moment they wake up in the morning to the moment they go to bed, and even when they sleep, when they're keeping their houses warm through the type of winter that we've had.