Good morning and thank you for being here.
I will continue in the same vein as Mr. Brison. Competition from emerging countries, including China, has meant that things are really very complex and that we have lost a number of markets. This is particularly true in the case of the manufacturing sector. We have had a tendency to tell ourselves that we should invest more in research and development and make our engineering firms work more in order to develop leading edge expertise. Moreover, I am told that more and more emerging nations, whether it is China or India, are also training engineers.
If the federal government does not act more forcefully in this matter, will we not see a situation develop where the research and development sector and the high technology sectors will experience the same difficulties as the manufacturing sector? If that is the case, should the government intervene? What should we do?