The comment I'd make is that you are partners and neighbours in good times and in hard times. These are hard times for everybody. At the same time, because we've been partners and neighbours, we do have a very integrated economy, there's no question. We have integrated sectors and automotive is one of those. They're attempting to address their issues with the auto industry. They're meeting with them regularly, as you know, looking at various types of packages, but they're doing that in concert with us.
Again, I can't speak to that because that's really the purview of Industry Canada and the Minister of Industry. Clearly there have been many meetings with the minister to discuss what the U.S. is looking at and how Canada would respond.
I think it is very much an integrated dialogue for an integrated solution for an integrated sector that is in trouble and requires the attention of both governments. We're seeing the Canadian and the U.S. governments working together on trying to solve that. There are a number of other sectors where, because of how our economy has become enmeshed in the last several years, particularly as the result of NAFTA, a solution for the U.S. is a solution for Canada, and vice versa.
In these economic hard times, there is a sense of everybody having to look after their own. Clearly what we have in a number of the sectors is a business community that works together. Many of our advocacy issues, when we take them forward to the state-level and the federal-level governments, are led by the fact that we don't just export to one another, we don't just to do business together; we make things together. We build things together. We invent together. I'm trying to put a bit of a positive spin on what I know is a difficult situation, and your question reflects that.
In the area of environmental recovery and clean technologies, Canada and the U.S. are looking, with this stimulus package that they have in place and this economic crisis, at how we can be working together to address energy security and to address the environmental issues that are being presented. We're looking at the clean technologies that both countries have through the businesses that are now offering these products and these services. Further to that, we're doing research together on a number of these areas to look at how we can address these issues.
The same thing is true in life sciences and biotech, where we're looking at a number of opportunities for both sides of the border. It is truly a situation where we are part of one another's solutions. I think what we're seeing with this administration, as we did again with the last and with our government, is a real attempt to try to address these solutions together, in the same way that our business community is attempting to do.