It's a very good point.
In economic-speak, this is what we call indirect impact. Sometimes people tend to overlook the significance of these impacts. Whether it's for manufacturing, engineering, legal services, financial services, all sorts of local industries, and whether it's trucking or whether it's employment services, those impacts are quite significant. You feel it on the upside, as we've witnessed over the past years, not just in Alberta, but in Saskatchewan and in Newfoundland and Labrador. We've benefited from the significant upswing in oil and gas activity, but have also felt it when the price suddenly falls.
They felt it most directly during the recent reductions in terms of the volume of business, but also in terms of margins. We've seen many of those suppliers being squeezed to reduce the overall costs of the activities of those oil and gas operations.