I believe that Canada should be pursuing discussions at the multilateral level and try to play a leading role. But with negotiations being stalled right now, we can't just sit on the sidelines and say, “We shouldn't be doing anything bilaterally because we need to put all our eggs in a multilateral basket.”
We're seeing the United States signing free trade agreements with other markets, and we're seeing the European Union doing the same thing. Our members are competing internally for investment dollars, right? We had a discussion on the Canada-European Union free trade negotiations recently with some of our members. This is a great opportunity for Canadian companies to position Canada as the developed economy, where you can access highly skilled labour and have duty-free access into the two largest export markets in the world. In that sense, we have no other option but to pursue the bilateral route for the time being.
With regard to the numbers in my presentation, yes, manufacturing directly accounts for 13% of Canada's GDP. It was 16% in 2005, but that's the—