To be honest, I'm not quite sure how to reply to the question about the population's belief that somehow companies will abrogate their Canadian roots, in the sense of a NAFTA or other free trade agreements.
I think what we're trying to do is build the small companies into medium-sized companies and medium-sized companies into world-class competitors. The question is how you do that and what are the results if you accomplish that. If we can find the means to help those companies to become globally competitive, it will stop foreign companies from invading the marketplace. It will help our companies invade foreign marketplaces. The trick is to really get those companies out there and make sure they have the right technology, the right people, and the right opportunities. That's as much as the trade commissioners can offer.
The other aspect of it, which you raised, is that I firmly believe that the companies that I see that are doing well in the international game retain that link to the community and retain the link to their values. Certainly you'll all be able to find examples otherwise, but the vast majority of companies today in Canada have found a new way of doing business.
To use an example, in Africa we have Canadian companies investing, I don't know, $7 billion to $8 billion in mining, and $3 billion in oil and gas. There are companies, particularly in Quebec on the consulting side, for which that's the major marketplace. Why are they being invited in? It's because they have a view on how companies should operate in a foreign country. They're viewed as clean. It's almost like a niche marketing. The fact is that you can be fairly certain of what you're getting from those Canadian companies and how they will interact in the community.
You pose the question, though, at the reverse end, of what the effect is in Canada on those companies, if they retain their.... I guess I can only say that I hope so and I trust so, but you're closer to that than I am.