Thank you.
My next question is a little more general, although it might be most properly directed to the Department of Industry. One of the recurring themes at this committee over the course of this Parliament has been hearing from a number of folks in industry, both on the employer side or business side and from a number of labour unions as well, that Canada stands out among our international trading partners for a distinct lack of industrial policy and planning.
Of course, we're here to talk about how to increase export opportunities. We often talk about trade deals, but in the Canadian context, it seems we do that without a concerted plan for what we want strategic industries to look like in the next 10, 20 or 30 years: I think, for instance, of Canada's lack of a plan for the aerospace industry or the automotive industry.
If we have those plans, please table them with the committee. However, we've heard repeatedly—including just earlier from our last panel of witnesses—that Canada is not doing a good job of this and that it would bring benefit in terms of helping industry coordinate some long-term planning, which they don't always have the capacity to do as they try to meet the short-term demands of their industry. Also—and I think we've seen a little bit of this today with some of the questions that get punted around—sometimes different government departments don't really know what their partners are working on, so you don't get a cohesive plan emerging.
I'm curious about the philosophy behind this, whether it's a matter of resources and when the government plans to get serious about convening its interdepartmental partners and industry to develop explicit medium- and long-term plans for certain strategic industries.