The first thing to point out is that we had the worst situation in 1993, with respect to all of the statistics Mr. Julian is quoting. At that point, unemployment was 11.4%. In 2006 unemployment was 6.3%, and that was the lowest level in 30 years.
If you look at the statistics, as I mentioned in my intervention, it's obvious that people who are unemployed are going to be the ones not earning as much. Therefore, it's the poor who rely heavily on transfer payments. They're the ones in the bottom quintile, and they're the ones who will be hurt first when unemployment hits.
In my current job, I have to stress that I'm an analyst rather than a policy-maker. But I think the policy response of the government has been to ensure that economic growth was restored, and one of the vehicles for doing it was NAFTA.