Those are all very good questions.
The reality is that everyone wants to integrate. The Europeans want to integrate further. I was in Beijing just last week, and the Asian countries want to integrate further; there is talk of an Asian sensibility that's different from a North American or European sensibility. The talk there is about how to break down barriers.
As you know, in Europe it's a community, so there are commonalities of standards with respect to labour, with respect to environment, and with respect to products and their labelling. For them, the drive is to remove those differences, because those differences mean greater timing.
As to whether those particular jurisdictions are suffering the kinds of issues that we suffer here in Canada, the answer is yes and no. It is yes in the sense that they're at a lower level of development, particularly in Asia, than we are in North America, so customs processing continues to be a problem that plagues them. From their perspective, that's something they need to work on. It's something they want to work on to reduce.
With respect to the United States, you asked why there is the problem of the time issue. That's the $64 million question. Part of it is security: the United States is feeling less secure. Since 2001 there has been a fundamental cultural shift in the way they view trading partners. That just means more paperwork. Then there is the issue of devoting dollars to infrastructure. As well, there is the issue of managing the complexities; we talked about them with respect to the Detroit bridge.
There are legal issues, there are dollar issues, and there are cultural issues. They wrap themselves up in a fairly complex ball.
Given the level of the importance of infrastructure and the complexity of the problems, delay, from our perspective, costs all Canadians billions of dollars.