Yes, we need something that looks long term at where manufacturing is going in Canada and can shape that long-term agenda. It doesn't mean that we don't need policies and changes today, but if we are looking only at the next two to three years, we are probably going to miss the boat on a lot of the bigger trends. We think we need a broad-based, sweeping manufacturing policy. We are fully supportive of the sectoral policies that have been created—aerospace and automotive, for example—but if you start lining that up with the food one, the equipment processing one, and all the other sectors that are out there, you will find that 90% of the issues are the same. Rather than create a whole bunch of individual sector ones, we think it is better to start at the big picture, define a national strategy, and see how the sectors fit within that afterwards.
On May 31st, 2016. See this statement in context.