Yes, exactly.
I agree completely on that point. Large businesses profit enormously from this entire system in Canada, that is to say a good health care system, a good educational system. We need to say so. It is advantageous for those businesses to deal with people who are healthy and educated.
We ask them for a financial contribution. That contribution is not always made. We are very concerned about trade agreements that are clearly to the advantage of these big companies, and not sufficiently helpful for small and medium businesses.
We have just negotiated NAFTA and some aspects of the new agreement concern us. First, there is supply management of course. Once again, it's always small business, for instance, Quebec dairy producers, who are the losers, whereas big enterprises will be able to benefit from a free market.
We are also concerned about culture. We did protect the cultural exemption, but did we protect the electronic culture? We were just talking about Netflix. Will it be free to chose the content that will be presented to Canadians? Will we be able to ask it to broadcast Quebec content, for instance? According to what we have seen, the answer is no. It's not in the agreement. One specific clause in the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, and a series of other points in fact, show to what extent that sector is not protected.
I was praising a different economy, one that depends much more on local activities, short circuits and what businesses are doing.
My sense is that Canada is once again favouring the large transnational businesses. Those businesses don't have as much impact on the Canadian economy as small and medium enterprises.