Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm not wearing mine today but I did wear them the other day, so at least once a week.
My colleague from P.E.I. was showing me some great tourism destinations this summer, which I thanked him very much for, but obviously, recently those destinations are under some significant pressure, and in some cases have disappeared. Hopefully, we can get those back up and running as quickly as possible for those local communities.
I'm going to spend my time a bit differently today. I'm going to give each witness an opportunity to think about a question. I'm going to come back to them after.
Do you have a suggestion for government, for the budget, that doesn't cost any money? You can think about that for a couple of minutes while I talk to Mr. Darby for a few minutes. Then we'll come back to that and give everyone a chance to respond with one idea they have that doesn't cost the government any money. It could be regulatory change, something that you could help us provide to the Minister of Finance that doesn't strain the financial resources more than they are right now.
Mr. Darby, from Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters, I'd like a couple of minutes with you, please.
I'm curious about your take on the competitiveness of the Canadian manufacturing sector vis-à-vis the rest of the world. There's been a lot going on. The U.S. is obviously making some significant investments. There's a lot of talk about onshoring. How do you think our sector is positioned? Are there opportunities to strengthen that?