I had no issues living in Calgary for near five years as an American managing an engineering team on a $10B oil sands project in the Stephen Harper era. I did have issue living in Dubai managing an Iraq South Gas project where the terms required Iraqi staffing requirements, all far and away useless. This as the "new" elections were to be had. Not a fun time. Thankfully I was eventually tossed to a crisis project living in a construction camp in Ras Laffan Qatar for our PEARL project. Crazy thinking we managed 50K+ folks on site on that project.
