We've met a lot of people from the manufacturing sector, be they owners of companies or leaders of unions, who come here and sit at this table and tell us how much manufacturing is the real thing, how much manufacturing builds real money, real wealth. Looking at services, it's something like the bad cousin in the family--we still invite him for Christmas, but not for the real personal holidays. How do you view this kind of upstairs-downstairs view of the Canadian economy?
On December 13th, 2007. See this statement in context.