Thank you very much.
I would like to thank our guests.
This feels a bit like déjà vu of the time when we were dealing with this concern with regard to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Mr. Allen, you mentioned that the Buy American provision of the American Jobs Act is limited to funding for public infrastructure authorized by the bill and that certain things don't apply. I think we understand that.
I'd also like to quickly acknowledge that I think the officials did a good job with CUSPA, in getting, frankly, the only exemption from Buy American that any country got back in 2009.
But my concern is that this really speaks to confidence in terms of Canadian and American business. American business is saying that maybe it's not a good thing to do business in Canada because they know what their American government's really intent is. I will express, probably a little more strongly than Mr. Keddy will, not just my frustration but my disappointment in the American government's approach to this. I think it's wrong-headed, and it's bad legislation at a bad time for all the reasons you've articulated.
I know you've talked about timing and how long this will take. What's your belly-button guess--if I can be so crass? If you had to guess as to the implementation of this bill, on a scale of one to ten, and on the implications of it, what would you think?