My institute has done a lot of work in this area, looking at the natural rate of what's called closure between thriving economies and lagging economies. Basically what our resource has shown over the last 25 years or so is that the introduction of multiple layers of federal assistance to Atlantic Canada has basically kept us from achieving the level of closure that we would have if you'd just left us alone.
So I think the evidence is quite clear that some of these things are certainly slowing down the natural transitions and trade-offs that would have seen us respond much more aggressively to the realities of our situation. That said, I don't think there's any question that Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurs such as Maritime Steel have found a way to be successful and productive in the modern global environment despite some of the things we've put in their road.