Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, witnesses. I'm not a regular member of this committee, so I think I can safely that I can give an ordinary Canadian's reaction to some of what you've told us today.
Tom especially, your presentation struck me like a....almost sounding the alarm, or serving notice at least, that we're in a situation where it could be either get on the bus or get run over by the bus. We're, at the very least, missing opportunities. It was a very sobering presentation for me. It strikes me that the smokestack industries and the resource-based industries and jobs are leaving us, but we're not jumping on the bandwagon of the next-century jobs. If we don't act quickly, we could be left in the dust.
This tipping point that you talked about really worries me. I wonder if you would elaborate on what leads you to say that we could be hitting this tipping point to where it would be very difficult to get on board.