Finance committee  Thanks for your question. First of all, not as much as Alberta, but we've been very challenged because of what has happened with the energy sector, particularly south of this city in Weyburn and Estevan. Hotels were running at 80%; now some of them are at less than 50% and some

Finance committee  It certainly wasn't all that long ago that it was a massive issue. We had a bumper crop, a great crop, and how do you get the crop to market if there is no capacity? I believe there has been some work done in that area. If I can just come back to the whole concept of how we mov

Finance committee  Thanks for that. I think we have done a fairly good job at diversification over the last number of years. Can we do more? There is no question about that. I think clean coal is very innovative and we're proud of it here in this province, so that's one area. Perhaps I can jus

Finance committee  That's a great question. I don't have the statistics, but I can tell you some of the stories. One employer that has done a fantastic job at retaining people from around the world is Loblaw. If you go to Loblaw here in Regina—and Erin, I'm sure you've been there—it is unbelievabl

Finance committee  I don't have those numbers off the top of my head, but that infrastructure project alone would create thousands of jobs across the country and have a huge impact on people. Let me back up for one second. I would say that Energy east would have a fairly dramatic impact on this co

Finance committee  That's a good question because it will really depend on where it is, what type of oil it is. I've heard everything from $50, at this point, being a price at which people could start to do some things again, and then not that long ago, at least $70 or $80 a barrel. I think there

Finance committee  Thank you very much for the opportunity to be here. I tried to answer the questions that were posed in the paper, which I condensed a little bit. Question number one asked about what federal measures would help Canadians maximize their contributions to the country's economic gr