Through you, Madam Chair, there's a lot in that question to unpack. I will try, as quickly as I can, to reiterate....
What caused the failures? There were several things. Beginning in the late nineties we had a lot going on. It got worse with.... I'd say we were at our peak in the late nineties. Basically, the financial crisis happened in 2008, which pushed us over a cliff. Canada's dollar went to par with the U.S. dollar, which hurt a lot of manufacturers, and between 2001 and 2010 Canada's medium-sized manufacturers shrank by 51%. At the same point in time, imports from China grew by 456%. So, competition on a global scale is what led to the demise. We never recovered, and from an employment perspective the data shows that we haven't recovered yet and we're not picking up.