M. Ralph Goodale: Madame Jennings, je dirais que, dans l'ensemble de son économie, le Canada a connu un phénomène que le ministre Manley a appelé «lacune sur le plan de l'innovation», qui a eu des répercussions sur notre productivité et nous a fait prendre du recul sur le plan économique par rapport à d'autres pays.
Mr. Ralph Goodale: My point, Ms. Jennings, was really to say that overall in the economy of Canada, we have suffered from a phenomenon that Minister Manley has referred to from time to time as the “innovation gap”, one that has tended to have an impact on our productivity and caused us to lag behind in overall economic terms compared with other countries.