Thank you, Chair.
Thank you for coming. This is fascinating stuff, and we're so glad that you have taken the initiative. It's been said before that you were asked and you've responded to the challenges.
I'm concerned about one thing. In a past study--and I've used this example before--we looked at the challenges of industry, and we examined the forestry industry, for instance. When the question was asked where the equipment was coming from, the answer was that it's coming from Sweden. How did we ever lose that opportunity when our dollar was...?
So as exciting and provocative.... The high-tech seems to have much more appeal. Are you putting enough emphasis on the others?
I'll give you one more example, from my riding of Chatham-Kent—Essex. In the Leamington area we have the largest collection of greenhouses in North America. These people, a long time ago, before government initiated the move, recognized that there were 200 million people within one day's drive, and they created this incredible greenhouse industry.
The leaders in the greenhouse industry are the Netherlands and Israel. Have you looked at industries like that? Sometimes we go for the high-tech, but we're missing some other areas. These are our drivers.