Well, if you go back 20 years, Canada was very much a resource-based economy. Now we're in a resource boom at the moment, so that is still apparent. Then you look further and find that we have a knowledge-based economy. We have, for example, a vibrant aerospace sector. We have the second-largest biotech sector in the world by number of companies.
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