I would say, with all due respect, the kinds of concerns that Mr. Morrison and Mr. Paradis raised really were concerns that were front and centre in the 1970s and 1980s, when multinational companies operated models much different from the models they're operating today, and I alluded to that earlier.
Most multinational companies that I'm aware of that have been written about are moving towards global supply chains where very specific and specialized activities are being moved to locations where they're most efficiently done. It is not necessary that we're a home country company and everything that is high tech is going to be done at home and everything else will be done elsewhere. Companies, including Canadian companies, are moving some jobs abroad and bringing some jobs home that were done abroad. Foreign companies are moving research and development facilities into Canada. Microsoft has moved a big research and development facility into Vancouver.
We could go on and give any number, hundreds or thousands, of examples. It's simply not an accurate characterization of how global companies operate today to say they're simply going to be biased against doing high-tech jobs in a foreign country. They'll do it if that's the best location in which to do it.
That's the challenge that we have in Canada, to make our location the best place for high-tech companies to do business.