I'll let my three colleagues, who have been primary speakers, comment. But I can certainly say you have raised a very important point. This is a new team in Washington, and they have yet to put in place their undersecretaries. There's a new cabinet and a new President.
We have heard time and again that Canadians need to go down there and educate, educate, and communicate. You need to bring up the issues again. You need to re-establish the importance of the Canada-U.S. relationship, from the Canadian perspective, with our U.S. counterparts. You need to tell them exactly, as Mr. Laurin did in great detail this morning, where we trade, who we trade with, and where the number one trading partners are. You have to keep doing it again and again, every two years, every four years--all the time. We need to continue to communicate.
On “buy America”, I totally agree with my colleague, David Stewart-Patterson. We not only directly provided advocacy in the United States, we collaborated with any other business group that would hear us on the message that this would be counterproductive; increased protectionism does not protect anybody.