One of the challenges is that innovation can come from any kind of company, but there is a lot of innovation that comes out of small to medium-sized enterprises.
One of the single biggest problems we see with the procurement cycles we currently have and the inability to procure, immediately, Canadian sovereign capability is that the procurement cycle being anywhere from five, 10 to 15 years will basically run small businesses out of cash flow, so they cannot retain the skills or sometimes even the service provider—the individual who has the knowledge—for such a long period of time. Basically, we get what's typically called a valley of death, where the innovation is funded, there is no procurement vehicle or the procurement vehicle happens five years later, and effectively the firm runs out of cash or has to look for other ways to keep itself and its people alive.
