This is why I say, “reindustrialize.” When we talk about supply chain, we talk about trade, exporting, purchasing and manufacturing. These things on their own are no more a supply chain than a set of tires is a car. Isn't that right? They're components of the supply chain, but when we're talking about the supply chain we need to talk about the whole system. There has to be an overarching balance struck in terms of coordinating all those efforts and resources, which are necessary. Don't get me wrong: Everything we have going on in Canada is necessary, and I don't wish to take away from any of that, but we need to coordinate it at a level that looks to the future and to the scale that we're going to need it.
The world is breaking down on a globalized scale. Right now we depend on a lot of imports. We have retired and outsourced a lot of our capabilities. We need to get them back, not only for our own sake but also to now export to others for whom it's less advantageous for them to have the same skills. This can be coordinated.
When I say “reindustrialization”, it's an opportunity to set a strategy that will cover investments, infrastructure and everything else, to bring it all together in a coordinated way so that we're not satisfying ourselves in the present and hurting ourselves in the future.