I have just returned form Norway and its oil capital Stavanger. The 5 million people in that country have gone from the "poor man of Europe" to it wealthiest in  about 25 years. The oil is produced offshore and is nowhere near as capital intensive as Alberta oil...also Norway is a country not a province and therefore does not have to send$$billions to a federal government which then hands it out to where the best political outcomes lie. The Heritage Fund is a huge missed opportunity but what's done is done. Comparisons to Norway are very limited on several levels.