Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks to all of our witnesses for appearing.
I found it very interesting to have Professor Wright and Professor Head together in the order they were. Because Professor Wright, after your assessment of the pros and some areas of improvement in the GMAP, you looked at Team Canada and you said that it looked as though things were happening, but there was no follow-up.
We were fortunate, then, to have Professor Head, who's actually analyzed the follow-up, monitored the post-Team Canada mission trade between the countries, and said there was no significant change and it was difficult to show that those missions yielded any benefits.
Professor Head, when I look at the largest mission that Prime Minister Chrétien and the Liberal government did, it was in 2001 to China, with over 600 people—premiers, mayors. There was $5.7 billion announced in that event. But then if you look at it, there were a lot of letters of interest, memorandums of understanding, that sort of thing. Did you look at that mission in particular, and does it fit with your general conclusion? You mentioned photo ops; there were a lot of photo ops. But an analysis of the data shows that there was no long-term change. Our trade with China was already going up, and there was no discernable benefit from this flashy mission.