Absolutely, it's a great investment, looking at the three companies here. The certainty over a period of 20 to 30 years that you will get all of your money back, and more, is pretty well there. At the same time, in the short term, those investments allow us to be able to develop new products. The answer to your question is that if you don't have that kind of interaction that other countries provide their companies, the fact is, what do you now focus on? Do you focus on legacy products, present products, and just try to live out your life with your existing product environment, or do you try to go to the future? Actually, the secret of success for the three companies you see here today has been this investment into the future, so we're always there competing with or ahead of the competition.
It's also complex, because it's not just SADI. We have SR&ED, which we talked about. We have investments that are made by corporations into specific product lines. You have foreign exchange, so that when we were at $1.00 or $1.05 with the Canadian dollar, our product became a lot more expensive. When you combine all of that together, it makes us competitive.
As for helping and giving a return back to Canadians, these are companies that provide a significant return back to Canadians in taxes, in benefits, in investments, and in the things we do in our communities—and not only now, but on a long-term basis. So that's a really important aspect of how we do that.
But I must tell you, if you're looking at one area of government where governments really have to work with us, it's the ITARs. George has mentioned this. It is not solved, which means that we can only take people born as Canadians; those who were not born Canadians can't work on something because they were born in a different country. It's unimaginable, and an area that makes it very difficult for us.