Mr. Chairman, may I also chip in on this?
I think it is really important to understand what's happening to manufacturing globally in advanced economies. Benchmarking ourselves against what manufacturing jobs we used to have I just don't think is useful.
Whether exchange rates are low or high, in Canada and the U.S. manufacturing is just becoming a smaller part of the economy.
I would agree with Andrew about the point of not fetishizing one kind of job or another. We have to ask what all the high-paying jobs are in industries, and, whether they're service or manufacturing, understand the linkage between the two and have a broader view of it than just saying we're losing manufacturing jobs and that is bad.
Part of it is that it's becoming more productive and becoming smaller in total employment as it becomes more productive. The same thing exactly as happened in agriculture.