Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I'll just make a brief comment and then I'll turn it over to my colleague Wayne Easter.
Minister, first of all, on behalf of the Liberals, I'd like to thank you again for coming before our committee.
I'll begin, sir, with the comments you closed on: “very committed to Canadian industries”. I thank you very much for that comment, only because as good as we are as a nation in producing quality goods and services, they're no good unless we are proactive out there on the international scene. So all I have to say to you, sir--and I know you are, but I just want to repeat it and put it on the record--is that we need you and we need this government to be very proactive on the international scene to make sure Canada gets its fair share of the pie.
With respect to the EU, which you talked about, I think it's a market, it's stable, it's solid, it's got the funds, it's got the need, and we should be in there as well as in other areas.
With that, I'll turn over to my colleague Wayne Easter, unless you want to comment on that in any way.