Thank you to all of our witnesses. I very much appreciate the discussion that we're having this morning.
It's very interesting because one of the witnesses, Ms. MacEwen, referred twice in her testimony to the devastating recession that we have come through. Our government takes a great deal of pride in having performed better than any G-7 country after that devastating recession—to use her words—and to have created 1.2 million net new jobs in that context. I didn't realize that we were kindred spirits until today.
I want to talk about the productivity issues that some of our witnesses have raised. For example, Ms. Cobden, 235,000 people put bread on the table because of your industry. That's incredible. You did speak about productivity. Could you take a few minutes to expand on that? It's very interesting.