Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being with us this afternoon.
Mr. Bergen, thank you for being here. You did an interview with Digital Journal this past June. The article says, “Canada is struggling across core economic indicators, Bergen explains, including declining GDP per capita and a shrinking number of global headquarters.”
In your opening statement, you mentioned that the CCI was founded 10 years ago on the idea that Canadian prosperity must be driven by “Canadian-headquartered companies” and an “unapologetically” Canadian economic policy as a cornerstone of our national sovereignty.
I want to ask you this question first. We talked earlier and mentioned some other things. Would you say that the Brookfield headquarters move from Toronto to New York last year fits into what you are identifying as a problem that we face here in Canada?