Warning: Conservative dilema ahead

Let’s say you are from a proudly conservative part of Canada, with a 12,000 square mile patch of silty crude bitumen sitting in your back yard that you would just love to sell off to the oil companies. Sounds great, right? But, oh gosh, tapping into that 12,000 square mile patch of silty crude bitumen is going to require a lot of labor and, frankly, the proudly conservative part of Canada that you live in just doesn’t have a lot of people.

Now you have a dilemma. Where to get the labor so you can cash out on your natural resources?

The 30 CEOs that make up the North American Competitiveness Council have an idea.

Canada and Mexico should accelerate efforts to import temporary Mexican energy workers to alleviate the skills shortage in Alberta and other provinces as oil sands development ramps up, top North American CEOs will recommend today.

Ooh, that’s a dilly of a pickle.

Hat tip to Grist.