Thank you very much.
Thank you to all the panellists for being here today. It is greatly appreciated.
I'm going to spend the majority of my time talking to you, Mr. Robson.
I want to continue with the theme that you started to talk about and hopefully give you the opportunity to discuss some of the solutions you might have for the productivity crisis we are facing.
I want to talk a bit about some current data that seems to validate, and even accelerate, your thesis, which is that there's a growing divergence between the U.S. and Canadian economies.
We recently saw in the United States that inflation there is increasing, perhaps showing that its economy is starting to overheat, whereas in Canada, we recently saw our unemployment rate grow. We have six quarters of per capita GDP shrinking. It doesn't look like our economy is going to get any better in the future. We're seeing an even greater divergence or acceleration.
I would like to get your comments on that.