Thank you Mr. Chair.
I like your points about the proliferation of the Internet. It's not just money that's the barrier, but geography. I have 200 towns in my riding, and 36 towns do not have access to any type of Internet. It's so behind the times; it's like highways and railways.
I want to get to Sheridan first, and I have a question for our folks on the coast.
I was reading the other day, and I brought it up at committee, about how Germany is now using a model for its technical colleges to create schools, and to heavily subsidize them, to put them into clusters over certain industries.
It sounds to me like you've gone the other way. You've managed to put yourselves in towards a certain industry, which is great, and it seems to me that you're adapting to this new type of industry, but when it comes to the government, I think you did say “government participation” near the end of your speech. To what extent...?
Now, when I say “government”, I say “federal government“. Obviously provincial government does have a role to play jurisdictionally, but then you get into that silo thing that our other guests have been talking about.