I think there are several things, and we have recently submitted several of them as part of the digital economy strategy to Industry Canada and to the ministry of finance. To foster the SMEs, you need to look at it from three vectors: one is the access to market, another is access to capital, and the third one is access to talent.
In terms of each one of them, there has to be some policy framework put in place so that Canada becomes the destination country for all of these. Only then can you create a condition where you have innovation taking place, and then the patent regime, if it is done right and comparable to the rest of the world, and we're competitive. We can try to commercialize products.
In the case of talent, there's been a lot of work in the current government and past governments looking at immigration issues. Yes, you need to have programs to send our kids to, these STEM programs, but that's not going to solve our problems. We need to have the best talent come here.
All of these pieces, from a policy point of view, need to support the question you're asking, and the patent is a big piece of it at the end, as you commercialize and have those in place.