I'm thinking about that in terms of monetary policy.
I think that the message I heard from a lot of people is that the government should definitely stay away from trying to pick winners and losers, so it really shouldn't be trying to encourage a particular industry, whether that's a value-added industry or building on it.
What was also crucial and came across in these various countries is that the government has to continue to invest in things such as basic research. That was really stressed in all the countries I went to and back here in Canada. That, in fact, is the foundation on which other research is then based. That was one of the most important points.
In terms of other value added, it was interesting trying to get to the bottom of why some countries do more value added than we do. There wasn't a model that we could import here. For example, in Finland, they were talking about—this is both collaboration and value added—having to pay war reparations to the Soviet Union after the Second World War. In order to pay those war reparations, all the industries had to get together and figure out the most value they could get out of their resources. That is actually what led to their culture both of collaboration and of adding the most value to resources.
I'm wandering a bit, but the basic thing for government is to make the investments in basic research, infrastructure, and things that would benefit every industry, and then let them get on with their own value added.