Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Minister, for joining us here today.
If I can go a little farther even than the governor did this morning, we asked for his input to this committee on what his role was in the last year, his role and Canada's role, if you will, in dealing with this worldwide recession.
I know you've been a very strong advocate of making sure that countries don't ramp up their protectionism. We are a trading nation, there's no doubt about that. We are an exporting nation, and we need to encourage open trade. This portion of Bill C-51 that deals with the reduction of tariffs for temporarily imported shipping containers--could you elaborate on that and perhaps some of the other tariff reduction initiatives that you've taken or that you intend?