Some $700 billion worth of contracts that Canadian companies couldn't bid on I think poses a threat to Canadian businesses. I really do.
I'll go back to reciprocity, and I want to give one quick example—I know we have a vote coming up very soon.
All of us come from ridings that are dependent upon manufacturing. I represent a very rural riding in Nova Scotia, and our industries, many of them smaller industries, depend on manufacturing. In fact, 87% of the entire riding is manufacturing based. There might be a sawmill, but it's manufacturing dimensional lumber. Fish plants do value-added. The aeronautic sector depends upon international contracts, and some Canadian contracts.
If we somehow think we can depend upon our 33 million people in Canada for our marketplace, when the world is our marketplace, in my part of the world, the 85,000 people who live in South Shore—St. Margaret's would be out of work tomorrow.
We're a part of the world that took advantage of shipbuilding. We do business in many countries around the world, and we're well positioned to do that, in a very modest way in many instances, but without it we would be shut down and we'd all move out west, or to Quebec, or to Ontario, because there'd be no work at home, and then we'd just be competing for jobs there.