Thanks to both of our witnesses for appearing today. We appreciate your time and your perspective.
Mr. Heidrich, I'm going to concentrate my brief time with you, because I'm actually quite perplexed by your testimony. At one point you said we should keep a firewall—that was your term—between our economic interests, trade, and diplomacy. Yet I recall your appearance before this committee when we were discussing the Honduran trade deal, where you were talking about Canadian operators in that country and their impact in that country, and our development.
Your very testimony before this committee suggests there is no firewall. In fact, Canada is present in countries if our major trading and exporters are present. Would you not agree with that? We're there. Whether it's through diplomacy, development, or trade, Canada's brand—if you want to call it that—is there. How can we superimpose a firewall onto the global economy when it's already operating?