Thank you to all of our witnesses for your testimony here today. I always try to learn something new, and each one of you brings a lot.
I'm also going to start with Mr. Rothschild, with regard to building an environment in which businesses feel that they can take risks.
I've been talking to a lot of small businesses. There was a high-tech entrepreneur in New Brunswick. She could be anywhere, but she is being faced with new rules that basically make it more difficult for people such as her parents and in-laws, who provided her start-up capital. Obviously the tax changes that the government is proposing make it much more difficult for start-ups to capitalize.
Do you think it's going to be a challenge to seeing more venture capital work done with Israel, if we don't have a start-up community that feels supported?