Well, competitiveness is a complicated thing to measure. Anything that contributes to the cost of a company is affecting its competitiveness. Often, economists point to the exchange rate as a key part of that, but of course, all forms of taxation, the cost of obtaining permits, lags in obtaining permits, and the cost of electricity—which, as you may know, is much higher, for example, in Ontario than it is in Michigan right next door—are all the things that go into effecting competitiveness.
Now, how can policy-makers contribute? Competitiveness is usually driven by productivity, so anything that encourages new investment, new investment in digitalization, or opportunities for automation.... Yes, the tax structure matters. Infrastructure matters a great deal to Canada's competitiveness. There are things going on on a wide range of fronts that should help us improve our competitiveness. Possibly the most urgent would be around the ability to digitalize, so there's broadband Internet, as well as the skill sets to go with that.
I'm sorry that I'm giving you a vague answer, but that's because the question is such a wide-ranging one. I certainly agree that the government should be using its tools in every way it can to facilitate companies' abilities to improve their competitiveness. That's not necessarily the same as using stimulus dollars to buy things or make certain things happen, but infrastructure, if I use the term broadly enough, is for sure a facilitator of competitiveness.