There's a lot of negative perception out there.
According to StatsCan, over the last two years, foreign direct investment in Canada has fallen to its lowest level in a decade. It's only half of what it was in 2015. Canada's traditional strengths, whether in mining, energy extraction, manufacturing—which is really important to my community—softwood lumber, fisheries.... There's a lot of concern about rhetoric and what's coming out of the current government. I was curious to see, when we had a budget, that even people like John Manley, who used to be the finance minister, said there was nothing in it to address our competitiveness challenge. Doug Porter said that people are giving up on Canada as a safe place to invest in natural resources. It's seen as a very hostile environment now.
I was wondering how you are going to get the perception out there that we're open for business and ready to do investment when there seems to be so much negativity around government policy.