Part of it is, as we've said before, to set the table properly so that we are the most inviting jurisdiction in the world for this new technology development.
Israel, as you mentioned, is a really great example. I mentioned in my remarks that you need to have talent, you need to have capital, but you need to have customers. It's remarkable how many people, when they're talking about public policy, forget that you ultimately need a customer for the technology that you're developing. Israel is extremely adept, as they develop partnerships with companies both multinationally and locally, at using national procurement and their relationships with the military and others to be able to create large customer bases for the work they're doing. Effectively they say, come to our country, set up, and we will work with you and we will give you a great environment, but we expect you to help our little companies grow.
We've taken that type of mindset here in Canada. Next week in Kitchener-Waterloo we will meet with over 35 small Canadian start-up companies and we'll discuss their capability in this area of autonomous vehicle development. Some will offer things that we can do and some won't. However, if you were one of those little companies and you were trying to develop on your own without a customer....
We get these science projects happening in Canada all the time where people go out and say, let's go invent the technology and then people will come, but they don't think about the customer who is going to be there. In big industries such as the automotive industry, it's really wise to have some of the large multinational companies that produce a million vehicles a year as a customer base for the things you're doing. We're trying to build those relationships, not just with universities for the technology and liberate some of the IP that they have in the universities, but also work with these great companies in areas such as mobile communications, which are going to be critical for the future.