Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank all the witnesses for being here today. I want to say how pleased I am that we are doing this study on the service sector.
You mentioned, Mr. Patterson, that there was a bias against the service sector. It almost appears to me that it's worse than that; it's almost like you've been ignored. Nobody has really looked at this before. I'm really pleased that we as a committee recognize the importance of your sector.
You talk about trade liberalization and how important it is. In Canada we have this great opportunity to start exporting our services. Mr. Marchi also mentioned.... Do you have some specific, concrete recommendations, not only on what the government can do looking at foreign markets and where we should go, but also about the interprovincial trade barriers? I hear in Canada that seems to be an issue as well.
Could you comment on those two things?