Madam Speaker, I want to thank the hon. colleague from Edmonton Centre for his advocacy for his community and for his advocacy on the oil patch in general.
Across my riding, many of the 14 first nations had a stake in the northern gateway pipeline project. The northern gateway pipeline project would have come right through many of their communities. It would have given them jobs. Many of these communities have construction jobs. They are into road building. They work in the forestry sector building roads and they service oil wells that are in their area. They work in all of the sectors that provide services to the oil patch. They drive trucks. They drive the big equipment. They do the things that are required to make the oil patch work.
Since the current government has taken power, we have seen a dramatic decrease in the amount of activity that has happened up in northern Alberta, leaving many of these people without jobs.