Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
And thank you to Professor Coulombe and Peter Howard for being with us.
It's an interesting juxtaposing of theory and practice, if you will. I'd like to follow up on some of the questions that have been asked by Mr. Cullen.
To Professor Coulombe, with respect to the Dutch disease, how can we compare 1960, and the rather insulated regional impacts of the North Sea resources opening, to 2010, when the movement of capital and investment is critical to multipliers, which you have just heard from Mr. Howard are absolutely critical to the future of all Canadians?
Pursuant to your thesis of the Dutch disease, how can we in a global economy allay the impacts you have outlined, which I acknowledge happened in the sixties? How can we apply those experiences and lessons to 2010 with respect to an energy strategy that is going to do the kinds of things we all want to do in terms of value added throughout the country, not just in regional pockets, as you have quite rightly pointed out?