Thank you.
I want to thank the minister and his officials for being here today.
I apologize for asking the three questions up front, but I'm doing that just so you can talk longer.
Mr. Menzies talked a bit about trade and about security always trumping trade in the U.S. I appreciate the tough stand you took in Miami by talking about this, and I believe we need to continue to push back on this.
What other kinds of things can we do to enhance this relationship? Certainly there's a border town where I come from, and the issue is always the issues we deal with around the border. We could probably build another half-dozen bridges, but it still wouldn't deal with some of the issues we have to deal with in terms of trying to get goods and services across. That's the first question.
The second two questions are somewhat related, but maybe not. I know India and China, as emerging markets, are something the department has indicated as a priority. What type of progress is being made?
Is the experience with Research In Motion going in there...? I don't know to what level the government had to help them. I would assume there was a great deal of help from the government. What is it that the government is doing to try to work on that progress and maybe make it easier for other companies to get in there? That would probably relate to any kind of free trade agreement we may look at in the future.
And my third question relates to global supply chains. We hear it all the time. What types of opportunities do you think we can have as Canadians? Is there an area of competitive advantage that we could face for global supply chains? Are there examples of what we're doing right now? Could you just elaborate on them?