Productivity doesn't happen overnight. We're starting to cope with that. If you look at employment, manufacturing is about 10% of total employment in Canada. It's now stable since last year. If you look at TD Economics' forecast, you are talking about between 10% and 12% of total employment in the next couple of years. We're expecting some jobs to be created in the sector, but it's not going to go back to what it was. As I said before, we're going to be less job-intensive. That being said, our contribution to exports will by far exceed any other sector, as well as R and D.
On November 1st, 2012. See this statement in context.