I'd like to go back to my original line of questioning.
We've heard lots of good ideas. There have been lots of good ideas put on the table throughout our entire study here, and in other areas in the broader economy, in facing some of the challenges we have. Of course there are always things governments can do better, but governments can't do everything asked of them.
We've literally had probably hundreds of billions of ideas put on the table, and with every one of them came the promise that it would bring us out of the global situation we're facing. There are a lot of asks on the EI front, for example, or conversations happening around EI, that would lead to much higher payroll taxes that successful companies, of course, would bear the burden of. If we were to implement a lot of the things that have been talked about, the potential result would be higher taxes being paid by corporations, and successful, growing corporations would bear the brunt.
My understanding of the biotech field, and probably of both industries, is that in your industry, unlike other industries, the bigger, more successful companies tend to plow a lot of the profits they make back into R and D.
I would think that the investments those types of companies make are probably among the most secure investments, in a sense. They would be the most profitable investments from the standpoint of successes that would benefit Canadians as a whole in the long term, the very types of investments we're trying to see made under our science and technology strategy under Advantage Canada.
Perhaps you could comment on that a little bit. Could you comment on the types of investments being made by the bigger, more successful, growing companies, the companies that are actually paying taxes?