It's going to be difficult for Canada to be a leader in absolute dollars, just because of the size of our own market as compared with those of countries such as China and the U.S., which are orders of magnitude bigger. They are always going to have a larger domestic market than ours. By definition that's going to mean that we'll have to be an export-led.... This cuts back to my commentary about competition. I would suggest that among the things we are going to need to do in order to become a leader—and we are not now, in absolute size or in technological advancement—will be to focus much more on the commercialization of the ideas we have, so that they can be scaled up into competitive, export-led industries.
On November 1st, 2018. See this statement in context.