Thank you.
I appreciate the paper you've given us on the numbers in the five regional trade zones. I would like to see your other document as well. I think Don asked for that, so we'd like you to forward that to us.
It seems to me, from what you said, that in Canada we're always.... On free trade discussions, there seems to be a segment that believes we need to negotiate free trade agreements just to have the agreements. The government has been very good at outlining the numbers of trade agreements that it has either signed or that are in the works. I did an analysis of the agreements. What I worry about is that we're falling behind in the Korean market, and we're continuing to fall behind even in the U.S. market. All the new agreements they've signed add up to about 126 and a half hours' worth of trade with the United States on the merchandise side.
So it's not exactly what it seems when you talk about the numbers. Your facts seem to show us that we're more hewers of wood and drawers of water than we've ever been. Free trade was supposed to solve this.
I want to really come to your point on what you called the “structural” underdevelopment. What needs to be done in terms of getting us to value added, trade agreements or no trade agreements? How do we as a country, whether it's an industrial strategy or whatever, do better by these trade agreements—with or without them?