Mr. Edwards, I certainly agree with the comments you made about your department, the staff, and the great work they do both at home and abroad.
In your comments you talk about power shifting to Asia, China, India, and we know about Japan. You talk about the new realities. Where in this budget does it show that you in fact have the tools to address that? You spent a lot of time on the Americas, and we could debate whether that is in fact a good public policy decision, but in terms of Asia, in terms of the understaffing in Asia, and whether it's the consulate closings, which I am vehemently opposed to, in Osaka and Fukuoka, whether it is in fact providing the tools at the Pearson Building for resources needed, how do we address this? I don't know that you could ever get enough money—I shouldn't say that, I guess—to do the job that needs to be done if we are going to be continuing to punch higher than our weight in the international community. I don't think we have been recently, and that's more of a political comment, but perhaps you could address that, Mr. Edwards.