Chair, thank you.
Mr. Dicerni, Mr. Stewart, thank you for that broad-brush overview. This committee is of course interested in tackling an issue that has not been treated, and we would like obviously to deal with the science and technology side of our mandate here as a committee.
I have a few questions dealing with the perception and perhaps the conflicts that often arise among provincial strategies on science and technology. Do you find your department is at odds with the provinces or that we work sometimes at cross-purposes with their strategies? Or is there a better form of coordination to ensure that at the end of the day, at the end of the line, new ideas are not just made and encouraged and developed in Canada, but they're also commercialized around the world?