Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to our witnesses.
I appreciate the opportunity. As you mentioned, we've been working for the last several months with the committee, and we've got this Ten Steps to a Better Trade Policy report, of which I'm supportive of the majority of the recommendations.
One of the issues that has come up from several of the witnesses, and to which our member opposite here from the Liberal Party alluded, is resources. In your comments, Mr. Sunquist, you mentioned the global supply chain and trying to redeploy, and looking at trying to maximize our existing resources.
I guess my question would be more about where we are today and about looking at the number of people who are on the ground. Do you think, in order to facilitate their building a better trade relationship with other countries, this lack of resources is a new phenomenon or a symptom of a lack of vision of previous governments?