A great deal of the economic and job potential of the Canadian economy going forward is going to depend on our ability to bring new products, new services, and new resources to market. I think we need to look at the development and discovery of new resources and at production—how we add value to those resources—as part of the innovation challenge we're facing.
It depends on investment and capital, on our ability to find the people and develop the right skills to capitalize on all of those developments, and it depends on our ability to get our products to market. And that's not just in the oil and gas sector; it is also a question of our ability to penetrate new markets through either new trade agreements or through encouraging....
Frankly, one of the biggest challenges we're facing in manufacturing and in resource development in Canada is access to the United States. That has to be a very important part, I think, of our consideration of various options to develop our value added strategy here in Canada.