The United States will remain Canada's major trading partner, but we increasingly need to consider other markets outside North America as destinations for Canadian products. Here, I'm referring not only to China, and not only to commodities.
Canada has a comparative advantage in many other areas – for example, communications, transportation (ground and air), education, and financial services, to name only a few – and we must exploit these. In terms of the economy, there are increasing signs that activity has begun to expand in many countries in response to the substantial stimulus that has been provided.