I'll try to go quickly.
The common thread I see running through a lot of this, to touch on it very quickly, is this word that gets thrown around that means something different to everybody, and that's the subject of competitiveness. The aerospace industry has gone through a very tough time, so the war chest is dry. When you talk about R and D investment and people being able to invest in R and D, they are just happy right now to have pulled through a difficult time. The Canadian dollar is doing extremely well, and that makes it a little more difficult for our competitiveness. When you start looking for R and D dollars, you have presidents of small to medium-sized enterprises in Quebec thinking about the bottom line. You might want to take that into consideration.
Employment is flat. There's a certain context in Quebec that we've been discussing at the board level with the AQA, and that is that the skilled labour is not necessarily going into the aerospace industry anymore. They don't see it as a sexy place to be. They don't see it as a place they want to be. And we have to do something about educating the public about that being an interesting place to come back to. So that's a consideration.
On the subject of procurement, I took it from the perspective of major procurements in Canada being linked directly to any kind of R and D. Well, for me again that goes back to my opening remarks and has something to do with all these things. As far as the Quebec Aerospace Association is concerned, the development of our SMEs up the food chain is the answer in all these areas. If you're actually providing incentives for the Quebec SMEs to either coalesce, work together, or find an infrastructure so they can provide more added value, it puts R and D back into those organizations, and it gets people to come to Canada rather than go elsewhere.