I would recall for reference that between 1948 and 1951 the United States contributed the equivalent of EUR 97 billion to help Western Europe recover from the devastation caused by war.

5. With regard to a concentration which would not have a Community dimension within the meaning of Article 1, the persons or undertakings concerned may, prior to its notification to the competent authorities of one or more Member States, inform the Commission by means of a reasoned submission that, in at least three Member States, the combined aggregate turnover of all undertakings concerned is more than 10% of the combined aggregate Community-wide turnover of all undertakings concerned, or that the concentration is subject to the national merger control rules of several Member States, or that the concentration for other reasons has sign ...[+++]ificant cross-border effects and should therefore be examined by the Commission.

5. With regard to a concentration which would not have a Community dimension within the meaning of Article 1, the persons or undertakings concerned may, prior to its notification to the competent authorities of one or more Member States, inform the Commission by means of a reasoned submission that in at least three Member States the combined aggregate turnover of all undertakings concerned is more than 10% of the combined aggregate Community-wide turnover of all undertakings concerned, or that the concentration is subject to national merger control rules of several Member States, or that the concentration for other reasons has significan ...[+++]t cross-border effects and should therefore be examined by the Commission.

While I have not checked the record, from my own memory I believe Prime Minister that you may have been here on the floor of this House more often than any of your predecessors in any previous Presidency.

I have some numbers in my handout that show that, in the same year that Canada looked like we were in third place among 22 OECD countries in terms of our spending as a percentage of GDP, which is 1994, we were in fourteenth place if you measure it in terms of dollars per capita.

You've seen one of our pages that indicates the cheques made out to retailers over the last four years. Our surveys have indicated that we've gone down to 5% from 12%, so the number of cheques is reducing.