To Mr. Myers' focus on the buy American side, the Americans have been pressuring Canada to get our provinces to sign on to the agreement on subnational government procurement. Isn't that one of our biggest vulnerabilities, the fact that we have not successfully engaged our provincial governments to sign on to those provisions on subnational procurement?
A significant part of the stimulus package in the U.S. will be delivered by state and local governments. So Obama can say, “We're going to respect our trade treaties,” and he's correct. They can still screw us through subnational procurement because that's not covered.
What should we be doing? Should that be added to your policy prescriptives, Mr. Myers?