It's a really interesting question and I think it's even more relevant at this particular moment in time, because probably many of you are seeing market slumps, and the stock markets and a lot of tech companies that were valued at very high valuations only six months are below their IPO listing share price.
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As we think about how we need to attract investment into Canada, it will also require some of those marketplace frameworks I talked about. One of your colleague's had questions today about getting IP strategies right, getting data and marketplace frameworks right, i.e., what happens to a foreign company when they come and set up a branch plant operation in Canada? How do we create those structures? Do we still provide SR and ED tax credits to them, and do we allow them to come in and harness data without paying tax on that data for commercial benefit?
I think the concept of FDI is a very broad one. It's investment, it's branch plant operations, it's economic activity that is done from outside of organizations. Simply and always our mandate and mission has been to level the playing field, because for so long Canadian companies have had a really hard time competing in their own jurisdiction.