I'll lead off, and Paul no doubt has some comments.
In 2004 a report was published by the government indicating that 1.9% of GDP in Canada is spent on R and D; 50% of it comes from government. The numbers in the mining industry are that the industry does its part: $40 million or $50 million or whatever is invested by industry, and yet government is in there for about $5 million. So government is far under the $40 million or so that is needed to get mining up to 1.9%. This is not the case in other countries. In Australia and other places, governments are investing like mad.
Secondly, on the part of mining suppliers, I would like to say that they are very innovative. Surveys by our association indicate that 15% of the employees of the SMEs who work to supply the mining industry are innovators, and another 10% of them are, perhaps more importantly, commercializers—the people who actually sell these things around the world. It's a very strong, innovating force for Canada and for the industry.