Thank you, Chair.
Witnesses, I'm only a visitor to this committee. I'm filling in for one of my colleagues, but I find this discussion really exciting, and my word, it's phenomenal where it can go.
Ms.Dybenko, I had the opportunity to visit Communitech in Waterloo, and I visited the MaRS building in Toronto, and so I have been exposed to some of this. I don't consider myself any sort of a technical wizard by any stretch of the imagination, but this absolutely fascinates me.
Ms. Dybenko, in your opening comments you talked about this being our next natural resource. Canada is incredibly blessed with natural resources. If this is our next natural resource, what kind of transformation is this going to have for our economy? We know that when we started building cars we stopped building buggies, so the opportunities are there.
You talked about the challenges with getting venture capital. What incentives can we put in place to help venture capitalists become engaged?
Mr. Gayler, maybe you have some comments from the perspective of Microsoft. I'm sure you have a long history of looking at how new technologies come on board and how that is aggregated into the business.
Could you both comment ?