Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I welcome our witnesses.
This has been a very interesting discussion, both with our present witnesses and with the earlier witnesses.
Mr. Bajaj, I think you've said it all: 1.2 billion consumers, with a growing and even burgeoning middle-class sector.
We heard from earlier witnesses in this study that there are 350 million to 550 million middle-class Indians, and that middle class is growing at a rate of about 7% or 8% a year, although everyone has different numbers. The economy has grown at about 6% to 7%, but it takes about 11% growth just to feed and supply that middle class. Without question, there's a tremendous marketplace there, which we share a common language with—one of their official languages is English—and the potential for Canada, which has a good brand reputation there, but not a solid brand reputation, is enormous.
A couple of points were made that I want to try to get more clearly defined definitions of, if I can.
I do want to save a couple of minutes of my time, Mr. Chairman, for Mr. Shory, so you're going to have to shut me off at the four- or five-minute mark.
On the issue of geographical indicators, that's an issue that we're becoming more and more aware of with our CETA negotiations with the European Union, and certainly in regard to their importance for our branding around the world. I think we used to look at geographical indicators as something that other nations imposed to prevent us from selling goods to them, but there's actually a huge branding potential for Canada there. How big of a hindrance is that in the Indian marketplace right now?