I guess I'd say that there are 1.7 million Canadians who are directly employed in the sector, and if we're transitioning away from them, there had better be a good future for them.
Chris talked about the wages in manufacturing. On average, manufacturing pays about 120% of the average wage in Canada. It would be a huge problem if we started transitioning away from manufacturing.
The other thing I'd say, just from a national perspective, is that we didn't talk about innovation and the creation of new products exporting to the world. Seventy per cent of our exports are manufactured products, so our wealth generation would drop substantially if we transferred away from manufacturing.
The other thing is our innovation capacity would drop. Fifty per cent of all private sector R and D is done by the manufacturing community. We need the manufacturing sector to drive wealth, creation to drive jobs, and to drive innovation for the rest of the economy.