Thank you, Chair.
I too would like thank the clerks and everybody involved in the travel. That was very honourable of you to do that. We sometimes forget what goes on in the background for these meetings. These folks do an excellent job, and we sure appreciate them basically having our backs as we do these types of discussions.
I also want to thank you, colleagues, for coming. I can't think of a better group of representatives from Saskatchewan and from outside Saskatchewan to talk about some of the issues we are facing here in this province. Of course, they are different issues than we faced four or five years ago. Now they're issues of growth instead of issues of decline. It's always good to see that.
I wish I had about 35 minutes to ask questions. I will see if I can get the chair to stop this clock for a while, but he's a little strict.
The first place I want to go is the investment dealers. We talked about the tech sector and we talked about the research sector. We're hearing about the inability to commercialize and the inability to get the capital into those sectors. In some ways, I wish you and Karen were sitting next to each other. Somehow there is a perceived wall between the two of you. What policies do we have to have as a government to get rid of that wall so that they don't have to go to San Francisco, Boston, or the eastern States to get their funding% They can go to Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, or Saskatoon to get that funding. What do we need to do to make that happen?