I might comment on it.
I covered the two solitudes as a reporter formerly for the Canadian Press. Let's remind everybody, before we go further, that in 1988 Quebec was the strongest supporter of the trade agreement with the United States. That's a fact, and it won't change.
Business gets it, as you said. Labour, I would say.... My simple explanation is that you must be aware that labour unions sometimes follow political fracture lines here in Quebec. It's a fact.
I said I'm the strongest supporter in Quebec for the energy east project right now. What's the difference between Quebec and Canada on it? It's that business people get it in both Quebec and in Canada, and the labour unions are ready to support the project in Canada—I had a meeting as late as yesterday in Ottawa on it—but we know that the labour unions won't support it in Quebec because it's not a good thing. It's a Canadian project. It's a rest-of-the-country project.
There's probably a form of, I would say, anti-capitalism here that goes deep in our roots, so I'm not sure we can count on the labour unions as far as free trade is concerned.
We're lucky we have them on board for our automatization projects, and our revitalization projects as well, because we finally convinced them that a stronger economy will in the end create more jobs, but it took us years to get them aboard for these. It's very difficult to get them on board with projects, and it's even more difficult to get them on board when they perceive them as being a Canadian initiative or an American initiative or anything like that.
Search no deeper than that. It's simple and complicated at the same time.