E-commerce is just another tool to sell things. I believe this is what Ethan said as well. In and of itself, it won't help or hinder. I guess a big part of our point was that, if other things aren't aligned, it doesn't really matter. You're going to miss out on the opportunities that e-commerce does provide.
The real opportunity is that you have access to consumers and business partners from all around the world that 15 years ago you would have had a hard time finding. Today the online community is massive and you have the ability to access it, but without the government policies in place....
You mentioned electricity rates, but it's not just electricity rates in Ontario. It ranges from bad regulatory policy or red tape that adds cost to municipal tax rates and levies that go on at that level, up to international tariffs. A bit of everything combines into that kind of business environment that impacts the business investment decisions that companies are making.
It's a wide-ranging problem, and it's a major problem. When we talk to our members about what their number one issue is, it is skills followed almost immediately by bad government policy. It's not a political thing at all. It's across the board everywhere in the country and with every type of government imaginable.
They have a problem with the way governments tend to treat business. It's as an afterthought rather than as a contributor, and something we try to get across to all governments at all levels is that industry is there as a contributor, a supporter, a partner of government to grow the economy and create new jobs. It's not there to do other things that sometimes you get blamed for doing.