Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
First of all, I'd like to thank the witnesses for your presentations. I think they're among the best we've had. I say this because what we're looking at with this manufacturing study is what government can do to help the manufacturing industry right now, not just what government shouldn't be doing.
I like the fact that we have some maritime ingenuity. We've got some thinking outside the box and we've actually had some new ideas today. I really do appreciate that, and I hope you're able to give us a written paper or something that gives us a little more detail.
I'd like to say I've heard different things from our witnesses. I don't want to contradict Mr. Masse, but I've heard that industry wants a smaller government; they want decreased regulation, decreased government intervention, and decreased paperwork, so they can get on with business without having the big bureaucracy holding them back through each stage of the game.
Mr. Cirtwill, I know you wrote a paper in 2001 about portability, in which you talked a little bit about partnering with the public and private sector. This is something that really excites me, because I've seen how other countries do it. They work together: you've got the government, industry, and academia all working together, and everybody benefits. I'm wondering if you could expand on that and tell us a little more about your ideas on that.