Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Welcome to our witnesses this morning.
There's this misconception out there that the only jobs that are being offshored are the McJobs, if you will, or the textile jobs. When I was in China a couple of years ago, we met with the head of Nortel. They had just built this world-class lab, with 200 or 300 IT specialists--engineers--and when I asked the gentleman there what this meant, he said, “Well, it means that the G-7 will no longer be the G-7.” I thought that was a pretty powerful statement.
When you're telling us that there's a potential of 25,000 jobs and only 8,000 people to take them up, should we be concerned that you may be forced to offshore some of your high-tech jobs, and is this a trend that is happening right now, where these high-paying jobs are being offshored to developing countries?