Thank you for coming today.
I'd like to ask some questions but, first of all, I'd like to congratulate you and your staff on your website and the interactive nature of it and also on having the speech today published so I could read it, even though I wasn't in the room listening. Congratulations. That is very helpful.
I'd like to ask some questions in relation to globalization and the skills shortage generally found in Canada.
In the context of the speech you made to the CAW on August 22, 2012, specifically in regard to building foundations to create prosperity, you mentioned the competitive advantage that we have here in Canada. We are, I would say, more advanced than many countries in resource development. Many countries in Africa, South America, and Central America use our corporations. We lead the world as we have more investments overseas than they have in Canada as far as ownership and management control goes.
Keeping in the thought process the policy tools of mobility of workers, removing barriers—provincial barriers, primarily—and immigration reform, and training and education, do you see, first of all, that the status quo, as we've been operating over the past years, is not good enough and that we have to make changes?