The reality is what I'm calling for right now: we're looking at expanding trade agreements as a means to enhance productivity. We see that as beneficial for a number of reasons, but in the budget submission we made to you, there's actually a citation from StatsCan when they presented to a standing Senate committee. They basically found that businesses that export have increased their productivity as they entered export markets, have grown much more rapidly after doing so, and have introduced new technologies more quickly.
Basically what we see in this regard, from a productivity perspective, is that accessing new markets creates access to new ideas, new technologies, new business sectors, those types of things, and at the end of the day creates more competition.
I think competition drives productivity very effectively. One of our challenges from a productivity perspective traditionally, not in recent years, has been that low Canadian dollar. There was a little bit of complacency, from a productivity perspective, that we could just rely on our currency position. That's changed a little bit. I think you'll see a bit more of an enhancement in productivity as a result of necessity in that regard.
Deregulation, ICT investment, and competition in that sector will enhance that as well, but opening up new markets, I think, is the fundamental key to doing that, because then we're able to bring in some competition, understand issues a little bit more, and innovate, if you will.