I'm a member of the New Westminster Chamber of Commerce and the Burnaby Board of Trade.
Small business people are impacted most when middle- and working-class families see their incomes decline. So what we really have is a strategy that seems to benefit the largest companies—those most inclined to downsize jobs in Canada—rather than small, local businesses that really need to have a prosperous middle class in their community in order to thrive.
I want to move on to energy integration. I don't know if you saw the excellent piece by Gordon Laxer this morning in The Toronto Star concerning Canada's energy insecurity. Basically Canada has given up its ability to manage its own energy resources.
Do you know of any other country in the world that gives another country preferential access to its energy resources to the detriment of its own citizens, aside from Canada?