Mr. Speaker, first of all, I have met with the alliance on numerous occasions. In fact the productivity numbers differ substantially from industry to industry. One of the problems that we have, as an example, is that obviously there are more productivity improvements in the higher value added area, the newer economy, than there are in a number of our older industries, those which produce basic commodities.
That is why it is so important to emulate, for instance, what has been done in the oil and gas industry where a lot of the newer technologies are involved and are in fact improving substantially our productivity.