Thank you.
Mr. Hinton, one lesson I drew from my time on the international trade committee in the last parliament is that Canada is not alone in emphasizing free trade in global marketplaces and reducing access barriers in trade agreements.
Where we do stand out is this. Our governments under both stripes have tended to believe that part of the free trade ethos is a laissez-faire attitude to industry at home, whereas our international competitors don't take that same view. They're equally aggressive in trying to reduce barriers to market access for their industrial players. They're much better at working with them on strategies to take that paper access to market and turn it into real market access for companies. They have an idea about what kind of work they want to protect and how they want to drive job creation in their own domestic market as a result of access to international markets.
It's something we've heard a lot of different industries talk about. I wonder what you think about that as a general assessment, and whether you see it at play in the industry in which you have a very particular expertise.