Thank you.
Thanks also to you, Ms. Wong-Rieger, for your passion and offering hope for your members of the Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders. I've met with your members in the past, and it's obviously something that's not as profiled on a day-to-day basis as some illnesses, but obviously affects Canadians from across the country, so thank you for your work.
To Jason, thank you for coming back to the committee and for the stability we have. I've been here since 2006 so I think that, with our strong, stable national majority Conservative government, hopefully we can continue to move forward.
I want to share the fact that there is optimism and hope. In October, month Canada had a $75 million trade surplus. So we're moving in the right direction, and CETA, together with NAFTA, is potentially going to open a combined market of about an 800 million people.
One of the concerns is that small business is still the bread and butter of the industry and job creation. I spoke with our Kelowna Chamber of Commerce on Friday, and the EU is the second-largest foreign investor in Canada. It says basically that one in ten Canadian jobs is linked to foreign direct investment and that CETA is going to open up doors to EU, which is already the second-largest foreign investor. As executive director of this group, can you maybe share your perspective on where you think the foreign investment from the EU will create an increased number of jobs and in which sectors Canada will benefit from this?