Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here today on such short notice on such an important topic.
I thought I would start with Mr. Wilson.
As you know, I'm the Oshawa MP, and we have a lot of manufacturing. You mentioned some things about how we really have to look at how this affects competition. I think you said B2B portals, product design, and plant operations.
One of the things you said that concerned me was about the investment in advanced technologies. The U.S.A. invests eight times more than Canada. What I'm hearing from our manufacturers is that government policies, especially in Ontario with, as you know, the high cost of electricity and the uncertainty of carbon taxes and how these are going to play out, are really affecting our international competitiveness, especially with the United States.
Can you expand on whether e-commerce will help or hinder Canada's domestic and global competitiveness? How do you see that rolling out? It seems to be the future.