Well, you know, even if we have good trade agreements in place, with important markets like the European Union, ultimately it's up to enterprises, entrepreneurs, and companies to step up and take on new business and to take the risk associated with investing abroad. Exporting is not an easy thing for a lot of companies—small and mid-sized companies—but we clearly need more of our firms in Canada to do that.
I don't think government can really force that to happen. Government can put in place framework policies, trade agreements, market access arrangements, and some of the support infrastructure Jim has mentioned, but ultimately it's up to companies and entrepreneurs to take advantage of opportunities that are there.
I suspect that Canada's going to have to raise its game. I think the business community in Canada is going to have to raise its game in terms of the global economy we're operating in today. The gravitational pull of the U.S. market has been powerful and in some ways overwhelming for a lot of our enterprises. We've just gone through five years in which the U.S. economy has really underperformed. Our trade has stagnated. We've seen that in our own member companies. I think it's really heightened the importance of diversification, of building markets overseas.
The job of government is to do the kinds of things like putting a trade agreement in place, but I think it's really up to the companies to take advantage of it. Hopefully, they will.