Thank you, Mr. chair.
Before asking my question, I want to express my satisfaction at the end of a week that has been remarkable. I want to underline your leadership and the leadership of your co-chairs as well as of Mr. Carrie. The working atmosphere of this committee is extremely positive. People In Vancouver will be very disappointed if they expected to see a House of Commons committee where members fight among themselves as it sometimes happens in other committees in Ottawa.
The Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology is very effective. I would like to thank our chairman, who is in large part to responsible for this state of affairs, as well as Mr. McTeague, Mrs. Brunelle and Mr. Carrie. I also want to thank our staff, the clerk, the researchers, the translators and the people responsible for the sound system and for logistics. This has been an exhausting but quite memorable week.
Now, we look for friends along the way, as we did during this past week. In Saskatoon the other day, we had a Mr. McCulloch, who was talking about his community college, like the infantrymen you just described, which cannot get any respect.
You just expressed the same thing. At the college level, you seem to be the Rodney Dangerfields of innovation: you never get any respect.