[Inaudible--Editor]...have one system in the country, so Alberta is leading the way in some of these things and is exceptional. They have also changed ratios, as you probably know.
The biggest thing I see in Alberta, which is very interesting—I'm trying to link back to the research and innovation issues, too—is that in Alberta you can actually have a tradesperson get a business degree; you can have them be entrepreneurs. They are the tinkerers.
This committee is asking why we don't have innovation. It's because we don't have demand-driven innovation; we are not looking at the near-to-market space enough. The balance is needed. We need to fund basic research, but we need to fund people who are part of the “know how” economy, and trades people, as much as technicians and technologists, are all from it. This is the kind of silo discussion that is very unfair to the 21st century that we are in.