Thank you for that question. The three examples you gave were all excellent examples.
I think anything that fosters the entrepreneurial environment that's growing in Canada is fantastic. Startup Canada, which recently took place, was a wonderful success. A very interesting study was announced last week in Tech5 that looked at the top 20 entrepreneurial cities in the world, and three were in Canada. That's quite impressive. They looked across a number of different areas that they measured, and Vancouver was fourth in talent in the world in terms of entrepreneurial opportunities, when specifically looking at tech.
Where we really fall down, though, is in investment opportunity, so any measures that help instill a culture of investment in Canada would be very helpful to us.
The tax incentive war is a challenge. Many of us in the industry wish there was an opportunity for a federal program that provided a level playing field across provinces. That's been quite a harmful thing in the industry in Vancouver, while other sectors have benefited from it.
To give you an example of my experience in the two different worlds of gaming, we used to have a joke in my first company about how many times you would be recruited by another studio if you were out for coffee. These were our programmers. At the time it was so tight to get top-level programmer talent that we had this running joke, but sometimes it was five times, and the record was seven. People were really after top-level programmers.
Today I know a number of unemployed programmers in Vancouver—it's a very different scenario—because they don't necessarily want to move to other places. Many people have moved to Montreal, Toronto, and San Francisco as well, so we do have a challenge in that regard, and it does need some attention.
Again, I think opportunities for loans for start-ups are very helpful. Supporting a number of the fantastic incubator programs that are going on in our province and others is also a great way to go.