I'd like to follow up on Dr. Corbin's point about the metrics, because it's absolutely right.
One of the things government can do is to help us to take more nuanced measurements. Simply counting outputs, such as patents, cross-border trademarks, or patents per population, is not very helpful. We perform very poorly because we don't do those things, but we don't actually know what we do instead. It's entirely possible that Canadian innovators prefer trade secrets to patents. So all of that innovation that's facilitated by trade secrecy would not be captured in the data. We don't know that.
Far more important than the patent, which is merely an artifact of an invention, is the process by which the patent arose. Who are the inventors on the patent? Which countries are they from? What is the relationship between the scientific literature coming out of universities and the disclosure in the patented invention? How is that patent licensed to other actors? What is the revenue stream? What is its impact in the market?
Dr. Corbin can do some very sophisticated research on these kinds of market questions, but we currently don't calculate this kind of.... We don't have this data. We don't know. A better understanding of those kinds of questions will help us to really tailor our policies to help the sectors that we want to help most.