To answer your question with respect to the Canadian competencies that have been developed, because of the fierce competition from international players, the Canadian companies that have formed have had to become much more competitive to survive. I would argue they're thriving because now we've got great examples of Canadian companies competing abroad on PPP projects. PCL, Canada's largest constructor, just won a major project in Australia for a $1 billion-plus cancer centre. EllisDon has operations in the Middle East. Aecon is doing airports around the world. These are all Canadian construction companies that have developed tremendous success records overseas as a result of the $58-plus billion of projects that have been done here. It creates more Canadian jobs, it exports Canadian expertise, and it is good for the economy here as well as for those entities.
On October 16th, 2012. See this statement in context.