Let me now move on to research. This is another area in which I am in 100% agreement that if Canada is going to prosper in the future, research innovation and new ideas are absolutely crucial.
The issue here is that Canada has the most generous public support for R and D, at least in the G-8, if not in the OECD, yet the performance by the private sector in R and D, compared with other countries, can best be described as mediocre. So you're asking the support through this program for R and D to become more generous. We already have the most generous in the world, with results that are not wonderful.
So can you tell us why we should be confident that this would bear fruit, given the facts that I've just outlined?