Thank you, Mr. Chair.
And thanks again to our witnesses.
I just want to reassure Mr. Williams that my caucus colleague, Ms. Ablonczy, is a champion of tourism. Any opportunity she has, she doesn't miss. Within caucus and to anybody within earshot she'll talk about the importance of tourism for each province in our country.
Tourism is one of the biggest economic generators for our region, British Columbia and the Okanagan Valley, so we're very concerned about the border issues from a tourism and an economic perspective, and for the flow of goods and services.
As my honourable colleague Scott Brison alluded to earlier, working with the Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group, we had a delegation that just recently went, and we're going to continue to address that full-court press, because as you know, President Obama just announced trade initiatives this week, and we're concerned with some of the language that's in there that's more and more protectionist.
Ms. George, I appreciate the work of the Canadian chamber and Mr. Beatty as well in continuing to address this issue. I just wonder what kind of dialogue you have with the U.S. chamber to emphasize the importance of removing that protectionist language within their trade policies.