We're having discussions with the war room that David Morrison runs over at Global Affairs to plan visits. Starting with our CEO and other significant business people who might be in our membership, we want to see whether or not it's possible to have a Canadian politician or various Canadian politicians come along at the same time, and that way perhaps bring out American legislators at the state or federal level. There's an enormous amount of information being built up now about the relationship, so that when you're in Louisville, Kentucky, and you happen to mention to somebody that the largest customer of this particular factory is Canada, it doesn't take them very long to figure out that an unemployed Canadian is not going to be able to buy as many of their products.
So, we're trying to build these regional campaigns, combining with media and social media and so forth, to try to warm up each area of the country. When we talked to Global Affairs, they said they would like us to go south, if we wouldn't mind. They have the border states pretty much cross-hatched with different Canadians visiting, but in Alabama they couldn't pick a Canadian out of a police lineup. So they want us to go down there and remind them that we buy rubber tires and chemicals, and all manner of things from them, or we sell to them.
We are the largest purchaser of American goods in the world, and while our trade balance goes like this every now and then, Mexico's and China's trade balances are not close at all, and ours just keeps fibrillating back and forth. We bought $48 billion worth of trucks and cars from them in 2015, and there isn't another market like that around the world for them. To the degree to which they are seized of that reality, then, I think we're as well defended as we can be.