Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the witnesses coming today. We've had quite a variety of witnesses over the last few months, dealing with the economic situation and challenges.
My questions will be mostly to Mr. Hodgson, dealing with the Conference Board of Canada.
Your group compiles a lot of data, no doubt, on our economy and probably does some projections. Some of the projections we've been getting over the last few days have been pretty bleak, especially on manufacturing. I'd like you to give us a little bit of a snapshot of what you see in the upcoming months, half year, or year on some of the industries we have out there now--manufacturing, of course, but you also mentioned service industries, tourism. How is that going to be impacted over the next year?
Maybe also, how do the small and medium-sized enterprises adapt to what's going to be happening, or how do you see them adapting to this so-called shock we're going to have with the U.S. situation?