Mr. Chair, I think the member makes a very interesting and important point here.
The report that we did largely looks at what we can do to overcome some of the foreign barriers, but in the first few pages we do point out that there are a lot of things we need to be doing at home. Earlier I mentioned transportation infrastructure being one, but innovation and productivity growth is essential. If we're going to be able to be competitive in global markets, we need to be highly productive, we need to be offering high quality products at low cost, and that requires much more focus on our research and development and on skill development here in Canada. Some of the steps the government has taken on innovation, as well as skill development, hold a lot of potential, I think. We would encourage the government to continue to take steps to enhance the innovation climate here in Canada and connect companies to skill sets that are going to be needed for innovation.