So aren't we glad in an economy where there are ebbs and flows....I come from a business background, only more lately into politics, unlike Mayor Corrigan whose commitment to public service has been like forever, and I salute you for that, but not me. I'm more recently into community service. As I see that, I still look at a 400% increase in exports as quite valuable.
You made the comment about pharmaceuticals so I'd like to bring it up, about the impact. You won't be surprised that in our nation's capital we had representatives from Rx&D, basically the name brand pharmaceuticals, and the senior representatives of the generics. The net effect of their testimony was they both thought it was pretty balanced.
By the way, I must tell you we did have someone in from the Canadian Health Coalition, I believe it was. They actually thought the generics were too high too. That was their perspective. We're not here for you to defend that.
But wouldn't you imagine if you have both sides that are seemingly contrary to each other, both coming back and saying it's a balanced agreement, that CUPE might take a more modified perspective on that?