Good morning, gentlemen.
Just to follow up on that last point, I had the opportunity, as did members of many committees, to go down to Washington in the last number of months. I can tell you that even though it wasn't the primary focus or reason for the visits, at each and every opportunity with a range of congressmen from both parties, and Senators, it was obviously an issue that we raised with them. Certainly the experience we had—and it was all parties travelling down there—was that there was great understanding among the individuals we met of the importance of keeping the border thin.
There did not seem to be an appetite for border adjustment taxes. That was something we heard time after time. We were delivering the message about the number of states for whom Canada was the primary trading partner, and I'll tell you that we got a good reception on that. Obviously, as you said, that's work that we are going to continue doing from this end, reaching out to colleagues down there to make sure that the message is amplified as much as possible.
Mr. Wilson, I want to go to a higher level and talk about the new face of Canadian manufacturing, what it looks like today and where it's going. In my riding of York Centre in north central Toronto, we have both the traditional idea of large-scale advanced manufacturing, as well as small and medium-sized enterprises that make everything from consumer and industrial goods to specialized research products.
What's the face of Canadian manufacturing today compared to the idea that many of us have? Where is it heading, and how can we, in Ottawa, continue to support it?