What a luxury. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I will address Mr. Macdonald.
I am sorry I did not have enough time to ask Mr. Hodgson a question about the innovation report card provided by the Conference Board of Canada. In terms of Canada's performance, the Conference Board says that Canada's improved showing is fairly minimal and more a reflection of weakness among the other peer countries than of a stellar economy. It also says that Canada has been a chronic laggard on several of the more important indicators—notably, labour productivity growth and competition for global investment.
Could you comment on the fact that we are so vulnerable and that we depend heavily on the rest of the world to save our skin to some extent?