Well, I think that's what we're seeing, in terms of the data, when we look at any measure of dollars being put behind Canadian workers. The C.D. Howe, for example, did a quite extensive study, and what they said was that, for each dollar a U.S. company puts behind a worker, a Canadian company puts about 52ยข. When we're thinking about the tools that we're using to arm our workers, increase their productivity and allow for stronger growth, it's just not materializing. When we look at investment overall, it has lagged significantly.
Now, most recently, it's a very understandable development. We are under such intense pressure with respect to demand. Where is demand going to come from? It has been a lagging trend for a considerable amount of time. When we look back to when we were investing in this, at the level in 2015, we're not back there right now. We had anticipated that, but then we had this interruption.
I would say it is a risk that, if we don't clear the decks, so to speak, for Canadian businesses to feel that they can see a return on their investment in a reasonable time frame, then I think we do risk continuing to lag and fall further behind.
