Mr. Speaker, my colleague across indicated in his speech quite an understanding of the global markets and the conditions he cited, the accelerated capital tax write-off for machinery, which will be very important in the global economy. He talked about global capital markets and he cited four areas where the government is taking an initiative.
However, he also cited that $523 billion abroad in Canadian capital investments in fact is the higher order of capital investment through Canadian investors. Does that not give him cause to reflect, with that degree of integration of capital movement through other markets than the United States markets, that this may be an ill-conceived strategy? Is the government sure that it has the research and back-up to prove that this will not be ill-conceived?