Thank you.
Mr. Davies, I liked your presentation very much. You made a distinction between applied research and basic research as well as between innovation and invention. Earlier we talked about business competitiveness. In Canada, the majority of these businesses are small and medium ones. As you said, these businesses do not have the means to do research and development.
I would like to put a very simple question to you. Do you consider that in Canada we have a sufficient number of research centres to meet our businesses' needs?
I will give you a very concrete example. In my region, a timber producer who had decided to market an electrically processed ecological log had to have his research done in Finland, because it was impossible to have it done here.
Can you tell me that there are enough applied research centres here and that the government invests as much as is needed in this area? Is that not the root cause of our competitiveness problem?