I am Victoria Lennox, and thank you so much for inviting us here. This is my first time as well.
Startup Canada is a grassroots entrepreneurship. We're calling ourselves a movement. It's completely non-profit, and we're applying for charitable status right now. It's a collective of entrepreneurs from across Canada who think we can do more by supporting each other than we can by just asking for government to effect change. So we've been on a national tour over the last six months, talking to more than 25,000 entrepreneurs about what they want to see Startup Canada do. We're essentially being very entrepreneurial and we're crowd-sourcing our mandate; we're crowd-sourcing our programming. On November 27, we'll be announcing our blueprints to Startup Canada, a summation of what was discussed and what entrepreneurs are saying. We'll be announcing our action plan, what we're going to be doing next, as well a charter of what an entrepreneurial country looks like.
The way in which we fit into this is exactly what Mr. Barber is talking about, this cultural aspect of how we really start up in Canada. I've done a lot of work. My background is very strong in policy and higher education entrepreneurship, and I've looked at lot of these models across the world. I think what Canada is missing has to do with how our culture influences not only our intellectual property regime, but also the way we finance companies. It really comes down to the way we educate our students and the skill sets they're given. The huge gap you'll see between MIT—