I can say that the C.D. Howe numbers certainly ring true. We are currently investing annually north of $6,000 per employee, within that range.
Much of our equipment, though, is made out of steel and aluminum and is coming from overseas, so we are experiencing uncertainty from a demand perspective. What will happen to demand for our products in the United States as the tariff regime may change from month to month? Lead time for many of the products we use can range from eight to 12 months, and that time frame certainly adds to the challenges we have in forecasting our U.S. business.
We require skilled manufacturing engineers, and those are always difficult to bring in. Our immigration policy certainly makes it challenging. Then, of course, the cost of the raw inputs has raised the cost of this machinery dramatically over the past four years.