Can I add something to that, Mr. Chair?
Just to answer directly to what you were asking, specifically about the niche part of the business and why we don't evolve more in that, we are in a moving target situation. Every country in the world, whether it's China, Pakistan, or India, is also developing niches. They are looking at that niche business because it has margins. Also, you have to understand that the manufacturing base has to be commercial. It has to have economies of scale. So you have to be able to produce and also to cover your overhead.
One issue of CANtex was helpful, but it doesn't really answer the problem, because what we are talking about here is market access, availability for us to sell our product, in the United States particularly. Then, on the other hand, we have the erosion of our market that was created by, with all due respect to your party, Mr. Chrétien when he deemed it necessary to provide Bangladesh with duty-free access to this country.
If you factor that in, just that one particular item--because I'm in the apparel business as well as the textile business--you have a dollar that has appreciated by 40% and you have a duty that was removed from Bangladesh of between 15% and 20%. You have a 60% differentiation between what an apparel product cost from Bangladesh. It's half the price of China.
What you have going on in the domestic market is a race to the bottom, and when you have this erosion, particularly by Bangladesh, it drives all the Canadian manufacturers to have to lower their prices to compete.
So it's market access and government policy. We have in the textile business the ability to compete, but we have been cut out of the American market and we've been eroded on a second front from Bangladesh, and that's the issue.