Right now it would be a hope, and the hope is the following. I'll use the example of my hometown of Montreal, because I know it best. Along one of the busiest highways of Montreal, you have all of the pharma companies, from Merck to Abbott to Pfizer. How did they get there? In the 1970s we offered great incentives to have them set up large establishments in Quebec. Along that same road, we have all the aerospace companies, from Bombardier to Pratt to CAE. How did we get them? We offered them incentives and they stayed. They've been there for decades.
We still do need to be competitive. Amazon is an outlier and maybe we wouldn't be able to compete for their HQ2. Maybe a city in the States will offer them billions of dollars of cash and free land and no taxation for 20 years. We Canadians wouldn't do that, but we will have to look back at the pharma and the aerospace and those examples that you give from your riding. We will have to readdress them for your companies and future companies, because there's no way to build a highway of an industry without giving large incentives. These could be immigration incentives, tax incentives, or land incentives.
I'm hopeful—it's why I started my answer with the word “hope”—that we will have a good ear in government to make quality arguments about reasonable incentives that should be given to bring that investment, and further investment from those who have already invested in Canada.
I hope that answers your question.