Thank you for being here.
This is good timing because I just wanted to talk to you about infrastructures. I don't want to talk about SNC-Lavalin and big companies, but rather about other Canadian companies that would like to break into the Brazilian market.
I saw that last April, the Brazilian ambassador himself admitted with respect to the investment relationship between Brazil and other countries that Brazil still had a lot of problems to resolve and that it still needed international cooperation.
Based on the World Bank's comments in its report Doing Business 2012, Brazil is 126th in the world when it comes to cross-border trade, behind countries such as Ethiopia, Nicaragua and Bangladesh. Brazil is also 120th for awarding construction contracts and 118th for carrying out those contracts.
In such a chaotic market, how can Canadian companies do business with Brazil?