Thank you, Chair.
Mr. Pilat, I wanted to keep you entertained here with the group. I didn't want us to think you're so far away that we couldn't have you at least engaged.
I'm looking at some of the figures from your 2006 OECD Main Science and Technology Indicators. They suggest that Canada's growth, as a reflection of gross expenditure on research and development, has increased, but we still lag well behind the OECD average.
I'm wondering if you have any opinion on research intensity goals? To use Yogi Berra's old expression, if you don't know where you're going, chances are you're going to wind up somewhere else. Do you think we ought to have established goals for where we go with research intensity, particularly as we try to build a stronger business case?