Article content“This move really is the icing on top of the cake,” then-mayor Dave Bronconnier said in 2004. “It’s bringing the intellectual capital that’s involved with the head office.”The company was shifting its leaders and head office functions closer to its growing oilsands assets. It also came at a time when the oilsands were booming, attracting billions of dollars of investment from domestic and international companies. “It was the beginning of the Coming of Age for the oilsands,” said Hulshof. The city’s population was still under one million residents at that time, but the sector was taking off and creating thousands of jobs across the province.