I thank you, Madam Chair. I'll do the best I can.
What I was saying was that there are significant benefits to Canada as a country in being able to have internal commerce work in a very significant way. Our battle right now is with the United States and, while that gives us a little bit more innovation and a bit more in terms of productivity, it doesn't move the needle to the extent that we need to do that. What we need to do is be able to deal with very significant structural trade dependents.
That's a very big problem because, in many ways, it was too good for us for so long that we didn't do the type of innovation and diversification that we needed to do. Now, not only do we have that, but we're not buying Canadian. I've written a paper on that recently, and you can see that on the CIGI website. You can see that we are not focusing in on the sectors that we need to focus on and the information that we need, so we're being out-gunned. That is a choice that we're making, and we should not do that. This committee can make a difference now to help us do better.
That's what I'm trying to say.