Yes. This is a great question, because it's one of the paradoxes of the online landscape. If you look at what Canadians are doing online, you'll see that Canadians are using these technologies in droves. Canadians are some of the biggest adopters of online technology in the world. Canadian business has been a little more reticent.
If you look at the e-commerce portals of various Canadian retailers, for example, you'll see that they are not as robust as their U.S. counterparts. Or if you look at the extent to which Canadian businesses are advertising online, you'll see that it is much less than what U.S. businesses do. But if this is where the eyeballs are, so to speak, I would expect that ultimately Canadian business would logically follow if we have a competitive landscape. It is definitely one of the biggest challenges as the economy and perceptions transition.
I don't know what the role for government is, other than being a cheerleader, other than ensuring that the best possible infrastructure exists and that it's open so that therefore the opportunities are available to people. I think that's a very important role for government in this context.
There's another thing that I would say for government, which I think goes to your question and the questions of other members earlier, that is, what should Canada's digital strategy be? Obviously it has to include broadband and has to include copyright. It should also include--and I don't know if members of this committee have considered this previously--open data. It should include making those vast amounts of government data that are sitting on a shelf somewhere broadly available to entrepreneurs and to the public, to mash up, to create...to use as a platform for their own innovations. You've already seen this a little bit in Vancouver, with the open—
