Thank you very much.
I have to confess, Mr. Chairman, I'm somewhat at a disadvantage because Ms. Feldman and I worked for many years on the softwood lumber file. I don't want to damage her future prospects by indicating what a terrific job she's done. She's a tremendous public servant and we're very lucky to have her working for the country.
I have a question that may strike you as a little odd, and maybe you're not the person to answer it. When we went through the last recession, I was in another job. One of the things we had to do right away was set up an early warning system on plant closures, and more particularly on investment decisions that companies were making. It's true that we're collaborating with the United States, but we're also competing with the United States. We're competing with states for plant locations; we're competing with states for where jobs and investment will go. Right now, in corporate boardrooms across the country and across North America, decisions are being made about where to cut, how to cut, where to allocate, where to focus production. What is the strategy of the Government of Canada with respect to those decisions, which are being made on a daily basis?