I would add that currently there's about $68 billion worth of services that are exported—financial services. There's also the tourism industry, for example, which is very important. But there are massive opportunities to increase this. If you look at the U.S. numbers, for example, the U.S. has the highest percentage of services exported. I believe they're doing close to double what Canada is doing in exports, as a share. There are massive opportunities for Canada, if we could develop a strategy for how we grow the good services companies we have.
On December 9th, 2009. See this statement in context.