Excellent. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for being here.
I'll start with our friends from Canada's Digital Technology Supercluster.
One of my favourite reads over the past couple of years was a book called The New Geography of Jobs, by Enrico Moretti. It focused on the U.S. and it was largely an argument in favour of implementing measures that encouraged the construction of ecosystems that might not exist otherwise.
One of the themes that I picked up through the testimony of a number of our witnesses is that some of the kinds of subsidies that have benefited your organizations have allowed different industries to solve problems that might not otherwise have been solved. I appreciated Mr. Mintz's testimony about focusing on innovation in particular.
Ms. Paish, you focus specifically on things like reducing wait times for cancer diagnoses or the prevention of fires.
I'm curious if you have advice for us on how we can focus the investments we make to help build these ecosystems that will have a long-term return on investment and allow us to solve social problems of pressing concern that would otherwise not be solved.