Thank you, Chair.
Thank you all for being here.
Finn, we saw each other a few weeks ago.
Mr. Burke, I say congratulations on what you're doing.
Against my better judgment, I'm going to engage you this evening, because I'm intrigued by what you're saying. I really am. I'm a free-market thinker. I believe in the free-market system. I think we would agree that system has brought about more wealth and betterment, but there have been challenges. Everybody knows that, but the world is a better place because of free trade and the free exchange of ideas that follows that. I'm not an academic and I'm certainly not going to engage you in this way. I'm open to new ideas and I think we have to be careful.
What's interesting about your presentation is that you talk about some other things we haven't heard about yet—for instance, a global meltdown. It's not been talked about too much, but there are those—and I know Mr. Poschmann and I had a brief discussion about that—who think that the globe is in a very precarious state at this particular point and that there is always that possibility.
My question is this. As a free-market thinker, I completely believe in the unguided hand and how we see that marvellous spread of the economy as it moves. If you take that away, what are you suggesting? Are we going to have think tanks determine how we now proceed with a new economy and a new strategy? Can you elaborate on that a bit?