Thank you.
For about seven years I worked back and forth with Cuba, not only on trade education but also on social development, and teaching with the University of Cienfuegos. Certainly I've seen first-hand, where countries are not heavily involved with trade, particularly with the restrictions with the United States, the devastating effects it can have.
We are a country of 33 million people. If we only traded interprovincially from coast to coast to coast, where would that leave us, currently and looking to the future, in terms of trying to provincially cover costs of education and health care? Can we sustain ourselves from within with very limited trade and export—and also import?
This is for anyone, because we also have to look at the importing side.