1,500 Attend Alberta Oil Patch Rally Supporting Oil And Gas Industry

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A rally in a northwestern Alberta city Sunday drew more than 1,500 people and featured a convoy of more than 600 vehicles, all sharing one goal: to tell Canadians and their political leaders that the oil and gas industry needs their support.

"I hope they can hear us in Ottawa," said Wayne Drysdale, MLA for Grande Prairie-Wapiti, to the crowd that gathered in Grande Prairie's ​Muskoseepi Park.

"Families in this region depend on oil and gas industries and lots of them work in it. If they don't work in it, they depend on it."

Following the rally at the park, drivers hit the road in a convoy that RCMP said had more than 600 vehicles. With lights flashing and horns honking, the line of vehicles ranging from pickups to semis headed into downtown from the airport, slowly drove in a loop, then returned to its starting point.

RCMP said the convoy lasted about 90 minutes.

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