Well, I think we have to revisit the nature of the flows of foreign investment, because we use an analytical framework of a production economy, where it brings management, technology, a tax base and a supply chain, whereas in the intangible economy it is fundamentally exfiltration, and the flows go outside of the country in that. I think our lens of FDI.... You can look at the nature of the marketing of the Invest in Canada organization: We give them money to erode Canada.
In value chains, there are no friends. Somebody's the landlord and somebody's the tenant. Everybody wants us to be the tenant and everybody wants to be the landlord, so we're going to have to stand on our own two feet and look after our own nation by ourselves.
Of course, in this, we need a proper analytical framework for how these things move, and then, when you do that with proper expertise, you will stop doing a lot of things that you think are helpful but are in fact hurtful. Our last place in the OECD in prosperity is a function of public policy misalignment for the last several decades. It has nothing to do with business dynamism. It has been a creature of public policy, and we have to put the mirror on the right cause of it or we're never going to fix the problem.
All of these issues are cascading, very much to this committee but also to a couple of others, at this time. This is a product of decades of inattention. If we don't fix it now, you're going to see things in 10 years that we're really not going to like.