Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Governor, Ms. Wilkins, welcome to the Standing Committee on Finance, and thank you for your very detailed presentation.
In your presentation, you talked about some of the specific challenges Canada is facing in today's world. You attended some meetings of the International Monetary Fund at which macroeconomic trends were discussed. I wonder if you could talk about what came out of those meetings.
Also, after reading your brief, I noticed a certain sense of relief—although I doubt you would like to comment on that—in terms of the Canadian government's efforts to invest in our economy. Generally speaking, what are other countries doing in terms of public investment to generate economic activity?