Government makes the rules. We were not arguing for government money to go into this area, but for trying to make it easier for money that is available in our economy and outside the country to come in and to fund, at the venture capital stage, developments in Canada—to keep them in Canada, rather than people having to go to the United States to find the venture capital and developing the invention and producing the product down there.
I made the remark, too, that there are moneys for R and D outside of Canada that we're not tapping because we don't have the mechanism in place to allow Canadians to tap them. The European Union has something called a framework program for research that provides money for R and D projects, and it's available to people outside the European Union. Canadians can apply for it, but they have to come to the table with some Canadian funding.
We're arguing for the creation of a pot of money somewhere so that Canadian researchers could compete to get the Canadian component, which then will allow them to apply to the European Union and get another slice of money and bring it into this country to use here.