I don't know if out of work oil workers will move out of Alberta, but Alberta is famously full of Newfoundlanders who have left that high-unemployment province.

I don't know if out of work oil workers will move out of Alberta, but Alberta is famously full of Newfoundlanders who have left that high-unemployment province. (NL's fishing industry, once its primary employer, has been moribund for a few decades.) Obviously, a COVID-19-triggered recession would not create an employment boom to replace oil jobs. (FTR: I support the immediate shutdown of the tar sands, but we need a job replacement/retraining strategy...)