I touched on both. I admitted that we have to work at increasing our knowledge of the problems surrounding infrastructure and output capacity. We need to do some profound research to understand these matters.
I won't say it's come upon us quickly, but we're rather taken aback by the number of applicants for courses. We're surprised by the large number of university students who now want to go to college. That's putting a huge strain on the system. There are opportunities we would recommend in research and development, commercialization, and innovation.
We have a small innovation program dealing with colleges and communities. I think we should look at making it bigger. It's very tiny. It can support only one in five or six institutions. We would like to see a more independent and flexible program.
We also put forward the notion of a national advisory committee for infrastructure and innovation in small and medium enterprises. We work closely with the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.