Thank you very much to our witnesses for their great presentations. I'm commending you for the good work that you are doing in your respective communities. Based on your presentations, I have a couple of questions.
First of all, what are your priorities? In the official language minority communities, when it comes to economic development, based on how you are setting up your priorities, have you initiated any market research or a vision of what will be happening in the next five years?
Why I'm asking you this question is that the world is evolving around us. We negotiated that the government develop a series of free trade agreements. One of the significant free trade agreements is with the European Union, which gives our businesses access to more than 500 million people.
This agreement will come into place in a maximum of two years. Businesses need to be prepared to capitalize on this market, including also the official language minority communities. You are able now to capitalize on a huge market, which is the European market. We are a trading nation.
Mr. Buck, you mentioned about the success that you had with establishing a motorcycle festival, but that's related only to North America. How can we attract people to invest in Canada and also capitalize on the skills that you have in the respective minority language communities?