Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to thank all of the witnesses today for coming to my home province of Saskatchewan. If you drive around the city today, you'll see exactly what's going on in this province, with potash expanding, the oil and gas sector expanding, and of course our mining sector expanding, all at the same time. It is like an economy on steroids right now. I have to compliment the government we have in place right now for managing it very diligently.
There are so many questions I would like to ask all of you, but five minutes isn't enough time, so I'm going to go into an area I have a lot of passion for, and that is the biotech area. I look at that sector and I see so much potential that it is actually scary. In fact, in listening to some of your colleagues, I think you're underselling the potential in some ways.
One of the things we noticed when we were doing a biotech study in the agriculture committee was the lack of knowledge of biotechnology and of the definition itself. The first thing that most committee members would go to was genetically modified organisms, which I found really interesting. When you look at the stack, that's just one tool in the tool kit.
Do we have an issue that we need to work on with the biotech sector in raising awareness of it so that we can attract this venture capital? Is there something the industry is doing that we could also be helping with?