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Moe, I've never heard that this or that industry needs direct political representation. Industries do a hell of a job lobbying governments for themselves as it is.
From the oil industry what is the beef anyway? Alberta just set an ALL TIME HIGH record production last fall, an oil pipeline to tidewater just opened to start exporting oil offshore for the first time. With that added capacity oil sands operators are planning to increase their production by maybe 20%. Next year another pipeline will start pumping gas over the mountains to load on ships for export. Prices are high, share prices even higher....Cap ex in Alberta oil and gas was almost 20 billion dollars last year and is expected to keep rising....
https://www.aer.ca/providing-information/data-and-reports/statistical-reports/st98/prices-and-capital-expenditure/capital-expenditures
Is this an industry "in trouble"? Needing of special attention/help? It's growing! at a measured and sustainable pace. What do people want? Double production, flood the market, see prices crash, unemployment spike and investors lose all their money??? A repeat of 2014-2015??? Is that what we want?
I'm not sure what Manley and company were all including in "energy"....all I know FOR SURE is that the government of Alberta (BY FAR the largest producer of oil and gas) states that "mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction" accounted for 18% of Alberta's GDP....and all of Alberta accounts for 15% of Canada's GDP
https://economicdashboard.alberta.ca/topics/gdp/
I tend to go by the numbers...I trust Alberta's numbers.