Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to all witnesses for coming forward today. Thank you particularly to Mr. Campbell. That was an excellent presentation you made.
We have a real problem in this country. It was admitted to by Foreign Affairs and International Trade on Tuesday. They simply admitted, for the first time, that what we've actually seen in this country since 1989 is poor Canadians getting poorer. In fact, there's an erosion of income, in real terms, that affects 80% of Canadian families. So since 1989, we've moved to a situation in which 80% of Canadian families are earning less now in real terms than they were then. We know that overtime hours have skyrocketed--by 33%--so ordinary working families are working harder and harder, longer and longer hours, going from temporary job to temporary job, part-time job to part-time job. This doesn't seem to be addressed by any of the public policy put forward by the previous government or put forward by this current government.
My question is for you, Mr. Campbell.
We seem to have a situation in which our trade and economic policy is made for CEOs and for corporate lawyers rather than for most Canadian families. We have a situation in which most Canadian families are earning less now than they were in 1989. If that's not a failure on the bottom line, I don't know what could be.
Do you see anything in this strategy, in what you've been able to find of it, that addresses this growing and severe prosperity gap?