Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, witnesses, for your testimony thus far, and thank you for being here.
My questions are primarily for Mr. Greer.
In your opening, you spoke a lot about the challenges faced by Canadian manufacturers. I know that your organization represents well over a thousand members. Ninety per cent of them are SMEs, small and medium-sized businesses. You also mentioned that you employ almost two million Canadians and produce billions in GDP for Canada, so I think your members have a good idea of what's going on, certainly vis-à-vis the tariff situation and the changing geopolitical dynamic that Canada is experiencing.
You also mentioned that there is considerably less investment, unfortunately, in Canadian companies and individual workers and the capital in Canada versus in the United States. I think you mentioned one-third in previous testimony.
Can you describe in brief why that should matter to Canadians, the productivity increase and the like? Why should Canadians care about this issue?