Thank you very much.
As I mentioned in my notes, we just had a Durham economic summit on October 12. It represented small businesses through to large businesses. They're all feeling the pressures, of course, in this day and age. That's how we came up with the recommendations I've presented to you today. Obviously everybody is concerned about their bottom lines, making sure they remain competitive and that there are no unnecessary hurdles put in their way to succeed. I think everybody has to be concerned, especially the smaller manufacturers, with the advent of low-cost labour from China. Those are the types of issues they all face.
We realize that at the local level there's not a lot we can do. That's why we have to rely on the federal government and the work of this committee to make sure those small manufacturers can continue to be viable on into the future.