Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our presenters.
It's funny that Mr. Martin would, in his last comment, mention agriculture. I think there are some interesting connections that we can draw, because the way agriculture has managed to survive and prosper, I would suggest, is by becoming competitive.
I'm very concerned when I hear Mr. Jackson comment about the loss of 82,000 jobs. As a matter of fact, this year alone Canada overall has gained 345,000 new jobs, 655,000 new jobs since this Conservative government has taken office, and 80% of those are high-value jobs. So your suggestion about 82,000 job losses—not to trivialize that, of course, but there are new jobs.
To Mr. Martin's comment, the new way of doing business in Canada...people are changing their job profiles, and that's a positive thing.
A little clarification for Mr. McCallum: it was the Liberal government that started the free trade negotiation with Korea—