Thanks, Chair, and I'd like to thank our witnesses today.
Just to let you know who I am, I'm a central Alberta member of Parliament. I've been on the natural resources committee for quite some time. I had the pleasure of travelling to Yukon for the first time in 2012 with my family. It was our summer vacation. We drove the Alaska Highway. I pulled my holiday trailer and at various locations along the highway replaced tires as needed on that holiday trailer.
Sad to say that the worst part of the highway was actually in Alberta between Mayerthorpe and Grand Prairie, simply due to the materials that were used in the construction of the highway. I certainly have fond memories of driving through Fort St. John and Fort Nelson as well. I'll start my questions there.
As an Alberta MP, I want to preface by saying that a little while ago Alberta was in a very excellent economic position due to the royalties it received from natural gas exploration and development. In the past few years we've seen natural gas prices—because there's a glut of natural gas in the marketplace in North America—discounted within North America. I think it's a quarter, basically, of what it's selling for in the Asian markets and so on. We've seen Alberta have some budget-balancing issues as a result of that, but still Alberta remains a “have” province.
Mr. Streeper and Mr. Turchanski, do you know which four provinces in Canada currently are considered “have” provinces when it comes to equalization calculations?