Yes, very quickly. This is a document that's included in what we've handed out. Our regional offices go out and talk to companies on a regular basis in terms of not only how they see the outlook, but also how they're adapting to the sorts of global pressures you've identified.
Certainly, one area that stands out is a response in terms of increasing their investment in machinery and equipment to increase productivity and regain some of that competitiveness you're talking about, in response to the appreciation of the Canadian dollar.
There are many other factors as well. Increasingly, firms and manufacturers are looking at using financial hedging as an instrument to provide some offset to exchange rate movements.
As well, you're also seeing companies beginning to look to other markets. I think this is an important point: exchange rates don't move in isolation with what is going on in the world. As we noted in response to an earlier question, the global economy has been expanding at an extraordinarily rapid rate over the last four years--quite unprecedented--and that rate of growth is expected to continue. Markets are expanding very rapidly, so what we're also seeing from the manufacturing base in Canada is looking to these markets as a future source for sales.
So it's a very complex and difficult set of issues, as you've identified, for the firms and workers in these areas. We are seeing these individuals, these firms, responding to these global developments.