Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
I just want to offer a brief comment in response to something that I thought I heard Ms. Stronach say, something to the effect that it was unfortunate we were losing high-tech jobs and falling back on natural resources. I just wanted to offer the observation that an awful lot of employment in the natural resource industries is very high-tech; it isn't lumberjacks out with an axe. Whether it's electrical engineers at Hydro-Québec or underground robot miners at uranium mines in Saskatchewan or 3-D seismic visualization labs at the oil patch in Calgary, in a lot of respects it's at the cutting edge.
They don't do a very good job at generating research and development. They do a really good job at incorporating research development that other people have done.
I just couldn't let that one go, because at Natural Resources Canada we think the resource industry is a part of the solution.