I think it's our responsibility to create jobs that offer value to young people. In our case, manufacturing has a lot of challenges, but it has a lot of benefits. Our contracts go out five to 10 years, so our ability to strategically plan and to create long-term stability for people for their mortgages and long-term development for them is one of the benefits, I would say, of manufacturing.
I think the things we can do.... I personally invest 8% of my income and profitability back into innovation and into research and development. I'm funding multiple programs. I could hire 50 young engineers tomorrow. The problem is that I'm funding this all out of my personal bank account. Do you know how much funding I've received from the government over six years of research and development funding for new innovations and technology? I received $480,000 through IRAP and haven't received any other funding.
You invest upwards of $15 million or $20 million of your own personal money into projects to create jobs in Canada, and then you see the government investing in foreign companies that are not Canadian-owned, $40 billion for plants that are owned by Volkswagen and Stellantis. These are not Canadian-owned companies. It's very disheartening that we are not prioritizing Canadian companies and looking at them and investing in them so they could create these jobs. I could easily create 300 jobs in Canada tomorrow.