That would be my pleasure.
You're right, most of the biotechnology that you hear about is an individual in a research lab with a great discovery who takes off and forms a company, and all of a sudden he is faced with human resource things, soft skills, and has to organize it and talk to people. It's very difficult. They have to find money to get their products.
To get a product into commercialization can take 25 or 30 years, and you have to cross the valley of death, they call it, where there is nobody who wants to give you any financing and if you don't get that financing you're going to die. Your company will die.
What we're looking at is that even when you have a master's or a PhD, you have skills and competencies that you absolutely require to be successful in a sector. What we're looking at is finding ways for foreign immigrants as well as Canadians, people transitioning, new entrants of any type, to develop those competencies and to identify them for them so they can get them on the job and get the training they require. What we're trying to do is develop the competencies and the career profiles so people can understand what that means. We can transition it from different professions and make them workable. What we need is a certification process led by industry so that they will buy into it and say if someone has been certified and has those competencies, they won't feel there is a risk. They'll say that's great, you're in, and they keep going.
On top of that, we have all these emerging technologies that are coming about and we have to train them immediately again. It is always an ongoing thing. We're never going to be stopping learning. The industry realizes this, and they feel that the competency kind of approach and a practical assessment when you can't prove it any other way, which deals with immigrants as well, is a way of getting them in there and working productively for Canada.