Gentlemen, thanks for being here today. I had an opportunity to do a round table with the Canadian Chamber of Commerce a couple of weeks ago. There were about 20 large companies, which you'd all recognize, and we were talking about trade and competitiveness.
Mr. Wilson, you talked about that during your comments. There was an interesting article by Mr. Iveson on the front page yesterday of the National Post talking about our direct foreign investment in Canada slowing down and about to fall off a cliff.
One of the things that a lot of these companies said.... I think one company in particular said that they have six manufacturing plants in Canada and they will absolutely never build another facility in Canada. I'm talking about manufacturing now. A lot of these companies are not able to either track money from the mother ship or from head office as they compete around the world.
As we look at these trade deals and where we're at, my question to you is this. You did make reference to our competitiveness at home. Would you just share with us a little more about the challenges you see as we move forward in this country in terms of our own competitiveness, which gives us the ability to trade elsewhere?