Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The Conference Board of Canada talks about Canada's performance in innovation as being, I would have to say, lacklustre. In the recent statistics--and they've been keeping them for quite a while--I think we were thirteenth out of a number of countries. Certainly, countries ahead of us, like Switzerland and Ireland, shouldn't seem to be sort of out of our own reach. We should be able to do as well.
This is not a new problem. It does go back a ways. I'd like to have your personal take on why that is and what it is that we're not doing right to be ranking higher on innovation. What solutions do you in the policy sector think we should be focused on?