The immediate thing would be to scale up the Innovation Asset Collective. It's a pilot project that in its last year now. What we need to do is to be with our global peers and have that fully funded. Right now, it's for data-driven clean-tech companies—a very important sector—but it's very underfunded. We need to expand it across all sectors. Provincial and federal governments need to work together to effectively ratchet that up based on innovation spending. We should be spending significantly more than we already are to protect the IP we generate and ensure that it economically benefits Canada and Canadian companies.
On May 16th, 2022. See this statement in context.