I've always said that trade stability and predictability drives investment, drives efficiency, and drives innovation. You guys are living proof of that in the expansions you've done. You also need to have diversity in your trade portfolio, the same as you need to have diversity in your investment portfolio.
By dealing with more countries, as you rightly point out, Martin, instead of selling everything to the U.S., you keep the U.S. honest, because you're dealing with six other nations as well that are also looking for your product. So that builds strength into Canada. In order to pay for health care costs and all the social costs in this country, you need to have taxpayers who are paying taxes. When you're driving up the rural economy in Newfoundland by doing all of this, of course, you're setting the stage to be offering all of those social programs. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy at the end of the day.
The one other point I wanted to make is that we hear a lot that trade agreements have done nothing, that everything is stagnant. Yet I think it was you, Martin, making the point, and Derek to a certain extent too, that in every trade deal we've made you've seen positive steps coming out of that, incremental at times, but always positive steps.
I would like you to build on that a bit, because we're hearing about Tufts University—it's American, and that was their study—and 58,000 jobs being lost, but they never start to look at the positive side. We're hearing from a lot of small businesses. One young fellow today increased his by 25%. It was only one, but it was 25%. It's about the ability to build your footprint.