Earlier Mr. Trost raised a good point, in that we ought to be talking about what the next steps are in terms of the Canada-U.S. market. It strikes me that we have to be making the case in the U.S. on an ongoing basis that, with our deeply integrated economy, and with the fact that 40% of Canada-U.S. trade occurs between divisions of the same companies, any artificial barriers to the movement of goods, people, and trade between our countries will cost American and Canadian jobs ultimately.
The competition coming at us is from the emerging economies. Frankly, in the Asian countries now we're seeing trade barriers coming down in more deeply integrated economies and approaches to that.
Mr. Shrybman, you're sort of positing the idea that Americans are perfectly correct and in fact doing the right thing to protect American jobs by implementing protectionist measures. That's exactly the kind of thinking that led to this Smoot-Hawley Act that turned a recession in the 1930s into a global depression, as the Americans did that and other countries reciprocated. Are you serious that we should be encouraging the Americans to pursue that course of action, and we should be reciprocating with more protectionism here in Canada?