I'd like to stay on this subject.
Ms. Aristeo, we're seeing two trends at this point in time. This morning, we heard that there is trend toward full market liberalization, without safeguards or industry support programs. The other trend is toward protecting important markets such as the textile, furniture and other soft sectors, to ensure a competitive position on international markets.
Of course, I tend to lean toward protecting this market. I believe it's important to protect our industries from competition of this nature. We have the ability to compete, as we have seen in other areas of activity. We just need to convince people of that.
Again, I'd like to hear your comments on the steps we need to take to convince this government and other stakeholders. Perhaps it would truly be to our advantage to bring in safeguards and to support our industry because these jobs are important to our community. Not all Canadians and Quebeckers are engineers. We need to maintain this major industry sector.