Yes, to your first point, I agree with everyone that the competitiveness is absolutely key.
We're taking a different approach to it. It's about affordability for small businesses in Canada right now. Being able to afford to run a business today is becoming more and more difficult. If you can't make it work domestically, then the chances that you're going to take it internationally are probably even less likely.
I think getting the domestic house in order, as some people have positioned it, is really important. That to me is not just on the taxation side, which is absolutely key and I could start talking about all the different taxes we're worried about coming at us in the next few months.
In addition to that, it's also dealing with regulations. Red tape continues to be a huge issue for small companies. That triples when you go into international markets. That is another area where we need to figure out how we can get at them. While trade agreements address that to some degree through things like regulatory co-operation councils and so forth, that tends to focus on big business regulations and not so much on the little irritants that really bother small companies. I think that's what's important in trying to deal with what's going on at home.
The last point I want to make is that internal trade is still an issue in this country. If you can't trade among provinces, how are you expecting them to try to go into international areas? We'd love to see some progress on that front. There's been very little out there since the signing of the Canadian Free Trade Agreement.
Those I think are the areas that we have to address first, if we really expect small businesses to be able to go out internationally.