Thank you.
First of all, I'm not going to make any apologies for the natural resources Canada has been blessed with. This is a competitive advantage that Canada has been given. Every country has been given certain advantages. Our challenge, of course, as a country is to maximize those resources.
One of the ways we do that is to forge new trading relationships, provide new opportunities for Canadians to compete around the world, provide new markets. It's one of the reasons we're focusing on the European Union. It's a market of some 500 million consumers. These are people we want to reach with our goods and services. We're making excellent progress on those negotiations.
As you know, we've also had a special focus on the Asia Pacific, opening doors in China and places such as Korea and Southeast Asia, where I've travelled extensively.
Our opportunity as Canadians is, first of all, the fact that we are highly educated, we are innovative, and we are blessed in natural resources. Putting that package together is the challenge, and opening up new markets for those skills, for that expertise, and for those manufactured goods is also the challenge. I'm working very hard to do that.