If I may add to that, I do agree that we have a lot of advantages in this country, and we do have leadership, in many cases. I think we tend probably to underpromise and overdeliver, as an industry and as Canadian corporations across the world. But this is a race without a finish, so if you are not advancing every day, you will end up losing; we will end up lagging.
So we see some differences in how other jurisdictions or countries are adopting technology, how they are taking risks, and how technology is driving productivity. When you look at other sectors in the U.S., for example—manufacturing, financial services, and all sectors of the economy—there is greater use of technology. So it is not a coincidence that they do have higher productivity, which drives a better and stronger economy higher.
We really do have huge potential. It is an industry that's basically brains-based. It is not a polluting industry, as such. It's our strength: it's education; it's people; it's talent. We have a huge opportunity, but we are missing, I believe, this opportunity to really be a leader.
The opportunity for us, I think, as a country is to say that we will have a policy stating that we will lead in this area. We will have a ICT strategy that is national one and that says, this sector is an important sector for us, and this is our strategy for attaining and sustaining leadership in this area. We will have a policy that says, we, as government, will be leaders in the adoption of technology to drive our own transformation, to drive our own efficiencies, to ensure that we do become effective, and that in our services to our citizens and our businesses—government to citizen, and government to business—we are leaders in innovation.
Canada was recognized as a leader in government, but are we sustaining that advantage? Are we making further investments to stay a leader?