I'd like to put a question to Mr. LeBlanc and then another one to Mr. Clark.
Mr. LeBlanc, you say that, in South Carolina, you rely somewhat on the consulate which is in Atlanta, Georgia. In the past, this committee conducted a study on international trade and suggested to the government that it make an enormous increase in the number of consulates in the United States. It did so in one of the recent budgets. We're often told that the person responsible for trade in one of those consulates can go to various U.S. states, but it doesn't work that way.
Do you think that, if we increase the number of consulates and the number of people working in trade in those consulates, as in South Carolina, that could really help increase trade between Canada and the United States?
Mr. Clark, I have a question for you also. Last week, Peter Harder, former deputy minister of Foreign Affairs, talked to us about the projection for 2010 and 2015. I don't know if it was a goal or a projection, but he pinpointed that Canada will be, as you mentioned, a respectable country. But in fact we're not represented in the emerging countries. My question is, how do we engage with the emerging countries? I'm talking mainly of China, India, Brazil, and some other countries, because it is now time to engage for the future and not to wait for 10 or 12 years from now.