Thank you.
When I became Governor, I committed to visiting all provinces and territories in Canada. I can now say that I've done so. It has been a great experience to talk to real people making real business decisions on a daily basis, in totally different settings.
I think the value to me is that it puts colour around numbers. Economics is mostly a bunch of numbers. Being able to stress-test forecasts or judgments with real conversations is very valuable, and has always been valuable to us. We put much higher weight these days on both our BOS and the interactive round tables we have when we're in a region. Both Carolyn and I do that whenever we're out there. We'll organize a dinner or a lunch or something with, say, 12 or 15 business people. Those things have been very valuable to us.
There are two sides of it. We get to explain some things to people that maybe they don't see every day, and we have those heart-to-hearts about how we think the economy is working. They let us know, “No, it isn't. This is what I see.” That's the kind of two-way conversation we have.