Thank you for your presentation. It's interesting; it raises a lot of questions, and it perhaps challenges your thought processes.
Canada is vast. It is the second largest land mass. Japan is 1/26 the size of Canada and has four times the population. When I look at these things, and your presentation, I'd like to ask you questions. And I'd ask you to write them down because I'll need a response to them.
You did a study of R and D investment and you said Finland is bypassing us. What part of their GDP is invested in R and D? What sort of partnerships do they have in the three Ps, academia, public, and private? What is the gap between the rich and poor? Is there a safety net that these countries have? China, India, and the United States seem not to have a safety net. That's on R and D.
Two, you talked about protectionism being bad. You say protectionism is bad. The U.S.A. and Japan are the two largest economies and they are very protectionist. I've just come back from Japan, and they do not allow our agriculture products to be in there. And RIM does not go there without having another protocol. How can you allow Canada to open up its borders to everyone and not be protected itself? That's something we have to play with. How do you do that?
Three, does Canada have an industrial strategy?
Four, what is Canada's competitive advantage? I know you talked about value-added, etc. I want to know what you think is Canada's value-added advantage. You talked about value-added agriculture products that we could sell to the third world, not to the markets like Europe, etc., because the Doha Round, again, was there to protect the poor countries, and yet we've gone into terrible rounds there.
Would you answer those? Then I have a few more.