Thank you very much, Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses for being here this morning.
I do want to follow up on a number of things that were brought up and one in particular, talking about how we can best promote the hub. Now, just stepping back a bit, let me make a few statements and then what I want to know is...and perhaps Ms. Ecker could first answer this question.
First of all, the World Economic Forum has rated Canada's financial sector as the world's best for the seventh year in a row. We have created 1.2 million net new jobs since the end of the recession in July 2009. We will have the first balanced budget of any G-7 country, with the strongest economic fundamentals. How key are those factors in the decision by China to select Canada as an RMB hub?