I know some of these aggregate figures for the whole economy; maybe we'll come back to them in a second. In the automotive industry you get aggregate figures that come from measurements from the national accounts of nations, and so on, and it's a little bit abstract.
One of the most detailed studies that exist on productivity in the automotive industry is the Harbour set of studies. They send an army of people into every auto plant in the world to measure widgets, and how many bodies there are, and how long everything takes, from brushing your teeth to putting the screws on. In their study, which is the bible in the industry, Canadian plants come out at the top not in Canada, not in North America, but in the world. The Oshawa plant was I think down somewhere below 17 hours per vehicle, and that made it the most productive plant, likely, on the planet.
So you see these countercurrents. You see that these aggregate figures will tell us that Canada's productivity in relation to the Americans may be declining. That might have to do with investments in other sectors. In the auto sector, that line of thinking doesn't go too far. As to the reasons behind some of those broader figures in Canada, I would suggest again, as my colleague mentioned, that finding proactive ways to support investments in new technology in manufacturing and other sectors would maybe change and reverse some of that trend. But again, and on the whole historically, Canada's productivity is mounting. Perhaps America's is mounting that much faster.