I wanted to close, in fact, by picking up on Mr. Williams' comment. In fact, Ben and I did a paper together as co-authors, because he worked with me at the Conference Board last year. It was a paper on services exports. It's ironic; we've talked for an hour and a half now and we haven't once talked about services, and that's why we wrote the paper.
The paper was called Opportunity Begins at Home, and the core message was, if we're going to expand things like services, which is 70% of our GDP, it won't be through trade agreements, Jay. Arguably, yes, we need feet on the street in the Chinese cities, but in fact it's going to start by domestic reform.
I guess that's a good wrap-up theme for so much of the discussion, because we pointed to unilateral action within Canada, the fact that we're not prepared to actually talk about free trade in things like health care services, or education services, or transportation services. We tried to push forward the idea--and we were being a little bit radical in this--that perhaps through unilateral action or by taking real initiative on getting our act together within Canada, that would actually position our service exporters, which are potentially massive, to play a much, much bigger role within the world economy. That's where the real value-added is down the road. It's not selling rocks and logs, and it may not even be selling automobiles, but it might be selling brain power.
I know the Chinese are investing in brain power as well, and so are the Indians, so are the Europeans, and so is everybody. But you know what? We don't have to dominate the entire global market for brain power. We have to find the niches where we can do well. Our share of global GDP is 2%. Imagine if we found the right 2%, the best 2%, to actually create wealth on an ongoing basis. We're going to talk about this in our report as well, which will come out in early January.