If I may answer, the reference in our brief is actually to our global ranking. When you look at where Canada actually sits vis-à-vis other countries, whether you look at the measurement used by the World Economic Forum or another measure, we're actually quite high. When you look at our infrastructure and the link between infrastructure and productivity, most economists now find that Canada's productivity level, to some degree, has not been able to keep up with that of other countries, in part because our infrastructure is declining.
If you look at the investments, or the lack of investment, made in infrastructure throughout the 1990s and at the reductions in capital spending cross the board, not only at the federal level but at the provincial level as well, we saw significant declines in the adequacy of that infrastructure. We as an industry probably see that more than others do, because we actually are responsible for the maintenance and construction of that infrastructure.
When you look at what our international competitors are doing, such as China and Brazil, there's a long way for them to go to actually reach the level of infrastructure we currently have in Canada, but they're moving quickly. When we look at where we're going to be 10 to 15 years out, we may not be in that leadership position. We believe that infrastructure is an important investment and that Canada has to stop seeing infrastructure as just an expenditure, but as an investment in productivity, which is really what it is.