The Alberta oil industry shed about 2,400 jobs every month during its downturn. (Jeff McIntosh/Canadian Press)"I think there are some misconceptions about what's been happening in Ontario," Moffatt later explained. "It was pretty bleak times in Ontario manufacturing for years, and then we got hit by the financial crisis," he said. "I think the worst thing that we can do is pit manufacturing workers against workers in the oil industry." But Moffatt says, many Ontarians, believe it or not, have sympathy for what laid-off Albertans have been going through.

Source: CBC News November 29, 2018 09:01 UTC