That's a great quote. I like that.
I have had the opportunity to travel to Kasugai in a different capacity. When I was deputy mayor of the city of Kelowna, and as a councillor in the year 2000, Kasugai was our sister city. We did go to Tokyo. However, we had a different chance this time to meet with economists and business folks.
Food safety is a very serious issue for both countries, but they seem to be more management centric than shareholder centric like the western world. They take about 80% of their profits and put them into R and D, whereas in our private sector we don't have that. Most of the R and D is from Canada. I think that's one of the innovative factors we can learn from them.
The last one is energy security. My colleagues talked about the shale gas and oil and gas sector. Maybe you could comment on the importance of our relationship from an energy perspective and on what Canada could mean to Japan.