Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to thank all the witnesses for being ready to answer our questions, even though we have very little time unfortunately.
Mr. Goldstein, we have known each other for two years; it is nice to see you again. Thank you for being available and for sharing with us the Statistics Canada summer 2011 data on jobs. I was able to see that, among my 11 colleagues form the Quebec City area, including the south shore, my riding ranked third with more than 6,000 jobs in tourism. That is one of the reasons why I am very worried. In my riding, we also have major players and very attractive sites.
I would like to go back to the issue of the real tourism deficit compared to global performance. In a Statistics Canada table on tourism jobs, we can see that in the first quarter of 2013, Canada was barely at the level of employment before the recession, six years ago, after experiencing a dip. We can talk about catching up, but something else is going on when tourism jobs have not followed the global growth curve at all.
Would you like to comment on the situation?