That goes back to the discussion we just had on the consulate and its closing. In fact, I find that a lot of support comes from the provincial level. In Alberta and Quebec, for example, the provincial governments are providing quite concrete support for business relations between the companies of their province and Russia. At the federal level, I said there would be a major gathering of business people on March 26, and of government on March 27. The federal government is providing a lot of support for that event, both financially and politically.
In that way, I believe it's trying to facilitate the transformation of a relationship that, during the Soviet period, was necessarily intergovernmental. That increasingly has to become a relationship between business people. That's what the Russian side wants, and we're trying to use what has already happened between the United States and Russia as a model. Now business relations and political relations are virtually separate, instead of being completely interwoven. That offers certain advantages. It's a bit slower here; we're five or six years behind our American colleagues, but these business relations are starting to develop. I'd say it's the role of a business association such as ours to adopt an even stronger position in favour of assisting the companies so that they contribute to the association and so that the association contributes to the development of business with Russia.
That said, we'll always need support from both the federal and provincial governments. We are very grateful for the support we receive.