Yes, we are. We're trying, Mr. Chairman, and you should tell us whether we're doing so adequately.
One of the things we've been doing is regional round tables. They've been exactly instructive, as you've said. The first one we did was in eastern Canada, in Halifax. I know that's not in Prince Edward Island. The notion there was to ask what opportunities we see in this region in terms of the sectors that we could bring in and in terms of the types of companies, and also what is going on with the universities. That was quite different from what we saw in Vancouver, where there was a different range of things. We got very clear feedback from those. It was a mixture. It was small business, large business, academia, and labour unions. We had a broad mix of people. That's one way we're trying to do it, and we're continuing that.
We've done that in five parts of the country. I'm going to Regina on November 10, for an agrifood one, looking at pulses and what we could do on those, and wherever that will move, with some technologists who we think we can bring in from Israel and from parts of Europe—Switzerland in particular. There are companies that we think we can bring into that.
We are trying to recognize that there are very big regional variations. I think this national agency has to look at it that way. That's why we think there's a need, in a sense, to have a bit of strategy around the types of companies that we want to have in Canada, in these different regions, and then go after them and try to bring them in, as opposed to doing it from the bottom up.