Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Vidler. I appreciate your returning to the committee. Your last time here was during our meetings on CETA and so that was appreciated.
Your report title is an interesting one, “Turning it Around: How to Restore Canada’s Trade Success”. In it you had a number of things I'll explore in a moment. But would it not be fair to say that a large challenge with trade in the last number of years since 2008–09 is really the sluggish economic performance of some of our largest markets, the U.S. and Europe for instance, and that would be a large part of the equation?