Certainly to expand to new markets requires investment. The good news that I would encourage this committee of international trade to take a look at is two things, the first is that trade is increasingly becoming disaggregated. We don't necessarily just trade wholesale products like iPads, like BlackBerrys. They're becoming much more complex. They require inputs that come from all over the world, so you need supply chains and access to diverse markets.
The second is that our foreign affiliate sales of Canadian multinationals using Canada as a headquarters and then basing subsidiaries abroad is also increasing.That's not well captured. The sales of those foreign affiliates is not included in GDP, for example, because of course they're abroad, not domestic, so we're not necessarily getting a full picture of the global economic footprint of Canadian firms.