Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for being here this afternoon.
We had a trade surplus six years ago. Now we have a trade deficit of about $50 billion. I'm reading very carefully the submission by the Canada India Foundation. To see that we have only $5.1 billion in trade with India is—I'll use Mr. Shastri's word—indefensible. He goes on further to say in this particular submission that Canada is behind the game.
It seems that we're not doing something right here. We heard in previous testimony that the trade between Australia and India has grown sevenfold in the last 10 years, from $3 billion to $21 billion, so here's a general question: what is our government not doing right here with regard to India? I understand that we have a large first- and second-generation population of people of Indian origin. I include myself, and Mr. Shory is here, and you. Where has the government missed the boat in the last 10 years?