The competitive advantages are that we have the labour, the knowledge, the marketing organization, and the international focus of both entrepreneurs and labour that are able to sense the importance of the international market and operate Canadian-based firms in such a way that they are attentive. That's the great Canadian advantage in my judgment. You just have to deal with Americans or, often, Europeans, and they'll all say that one thing about Canadians is that we all understand that it's important out there because we are a relatively small country in terms of the size of the country. So I think it's a combination of people, culture, and economics to make it all work. Plus there's our foreign policy and the politics, of course.
On May 6th, 2014. See this statement in context.