Thank you.
I missed the first part of that, but I caught the major part of it. Thank you.
I have a couple of comments. I would very much welcome, and I'm sure my colleagues would be very appreciative of, being involved in a debate on this matter that affects all Canadians. Let me say that right off. The opportunity here is to find a way to find solutions immediately if that's at all possible, and I think that's absolutely required right now. I made reference to the 22 recommendations, and if you can bear an analogy, I think we need to hit a home run on this one to make sure that we take action right now to stop the flow of jobs out of this country.
What I'm hearing in my community is sure, we've lost jobs in eastern Ontario, but we've created jobs elsewhere. They are certainly not being created in eastern Ontario. However, we are getting the odd inquiry where people are telling us that they would like to set up shop in Smiths Falls because they have a great idea, it's a new technology or a patent, and they could create jobs. And what we're finding is they're saying if they can't do it here they can go to the United States or some other country. So we are losing opportunities.