I come from Hamilton where we had for generations a huge industrial base. We've heard at this committee concerns regarding SR and ED, and you'll notice that's percolating through the conversation fairly well tonight. We've had indications that the changes are going to drop us from ninth to fifteenth in R and D. There is all kinds of negative commentary out there. People are saying there are concerns that we'll be less productive as a nation going into the future. Investment in R and D is one of the things that seemed, for North America as a whole, to get us into a better position to compete in the world. We have the education systems to fortify that. Again, I'm from Hamilton. We have McMaster and the centres of excellence there.
At a time when other countries appear to be investing more, and your comments earlier tonight seemed to address that to some extent, could you give us more reasons as to why you appear to be moving in the opposite direction?