Mr. Speaker, I come from central Alberta which has seven world scale petrochemical developments. There are 11 quarter sections of land being developed in housing. There has been a huge increase in what is happening.
I meet with the executives of those companies. I welcome them and ask them why they are there. The reasons are low feedstock costs, less government, and the efficiency and productivity opportunities in that community. The advantages are obvious.
They could go to the gulf coast. They could go to Saudi Arabia. However they have chosen Alberta because it is a place where taxes are low, government interference is much less, and people have an incentive to do much better. The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in Alberta. I am afraid that what we have here does nothing but kill it. That is the big problem.