Mr. Chair, thank you, and witnesses, thank you for being here.
It's not the first time for most of you, but for those who are here for the first time, we welcome you. It is going to be very helpful to us in terms of providing a concrete report.
Many of us are concerned about what has happened in manufacturing. I'm wondering if any of you here could perhaps give us a more concrete example of the absorption of lost manufacturing jobs into your sectors. I realize it's a general question.
The second one that concerns me is, could you identify weaknesses within your own areas, within your own sectors, where you foresee the possibility of a replication of what we're seeing in manufacturing? It's great that we have this wonderful world—Mr. Marchi talked at great length about opportunities that exist internationally to export our service prowess—but at the same time there is a quid pro quo. Most of us understand, for instance, that one of the traditional service jobs that we recognized in the past, telecentres, has now been farmed out to the cheapest jurisdictions around the world. That's not to suggest that is a scary phenomenon, but in order to look critically at the service sector, we'd like to anticipate where there will be losses, if indeed those are going to take place in the future.
I leave this open to anyone to comment.