Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for coming today.
It's an interesting meeting because all your organizations sound very similar—the names and the things you work on—but I sense your clientele is very different in many ways.
Someone touched on this. There have been several commentators around the world who have actually talked about Canada's relative strength compared to the rest of the world. Coming out of this global slowdown, I know the OECD recently said at the World Economic Forum that Canada would be one of two industrialized countries to come out in a more competitive position than we went in. I think Australia was the other one. Could you just focus a little bit on what we're doing right? I'm not doing this to elicit praise for the government from the witnesses, although that's nice sometimes.
What can we learn about what we're doing right? One of the witnesses talked, for example, about the SR and ED program. In the SR and ED program, we've made some changes that have been pretty positive, I think, but we've been asked for maybe more. We've heard from witnesses in different studies we've done on how the SR and ED program could be improved.
What are we doing right, and how can we learn from what we're doing right, to become even stronger?