Since I neglected a few things in my opening remarks, I'll add, in addition to everything you've said, that I guess we'll tell a year from now. We can meet in the Market for a steak one way or another.
There will be some infrastructure programming kicking in, both on the federal side and the provincial side, which will help at least to some extent on some of these construction projects that are going to be completed over the next year or so. You're right.
As I tried to answer, I think you need a double-barrelled approach. I think we need to look at the strengths we have. We have oil and gas. We need to make it more effective, reduce the environmental footprint, and build off that into value added. We're really good at this, right? We're not the only people in the world with oil. We know how to get it out. We know how to do petroleum engineering. Let's export that expertise around the world.
It's not our only strength. Agriculture has been a strength since the founding of the province a hundred and some years ago. I spoke to that a bit. I think we should be looking at that and at adding value to our high-quality products as well before we export them.
There have been government investments, both federally and provincially, in a number of areas. I've touched on nanotechnology, health, and ICT. They're not going to replace 27% of GDP—I'm not naive—but they exist, they have the potential to build, and they are having some success in exporting around the world.
I think exporting is part of the equation, too, when we look at these other things. It's not the local Canadian market that is going to push us ahead. We need to really be upping our game, both as governments and in the private sector, to take more of our products to American and international markets if we're really going to succeed.