Actually, Canadian businesses have grown. I think it's an amazing statistic. It was less than $400 million in 2005 and it's now at $1.7 billion. That is over 400% in five years.
One of the things we're finding in our discussions on free trade agreements is that in six years we've had to cover a lot of ground. There was this huge vacuum that was left before.
I'll go to the education component of it. We've not only had to go from the ground up to strengthen our economy; we've had to move from a brain drain to a brain gain. We've done that now. We didn't have anything in place prior to 2006 for keeping the intellectual people and wanting to attract people to Canada.
You talked about the small number of Indian students in Canada, some 4,000 students. That number is continuing to increase, from what I understand. When I look at the demographics in India, I think that 70% are under 40 years of age and 50% are under 25, or something like that, and there are 550 million people. In the education component, we have a great opportunity to bring people to Canada.
Can you expand on how important that is to our economic growth and to changing our demographics? Our demographics are going the other way. We're all getting a little older.
How can we attract those people and then have them stay, once they get the higher education that is needed?