Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, witnesses, for appearing before us today. It's a very fascinating study we've undertaken, and it gets more interesting I think as we go along.
I want to direct a question to David Stewart-Patterson, actually, and just very quickly. In your brief, you've suggested we have some real areas of concern--and I would agree with those. However, it appears to me that what you're suggesting is that we target certain areas of the industry. Am I correct in thinking that?
I would think that in the past the Canadian experience has been more of a wild west affair: go on out there, make a go of it; if you make it, you're going to succeed.
Mr. Marchi was saying, too, that we've done well in banking, telecommunications, life insurance. There seem to be some things that we get really good at. Should we, then, as a government, encourage those through our tax policies or should we continue to make it an even playing field, which I think our government has done?
I want your comments on that.