Simply stated, I think we need a program in Canada that allows SMEs and only SMEs to be the front-line players. There has to be a program that's targeted to SMEs, whatever the definition of an SME is within that program. They are the primes of those particular contracts, so there's a conduit that goes in from SME to end client, and what we're facing, as I mentioned before, are those barriers to entry. We have a lot of barriers to crossing that chasm and getting to the end client.
We need a program that's specifically geared towards SMEs, such as IRAP, but as I mentioned, IRAP is more pre-commercialization. We need a program similar to IRAP, or maybe it's IRAP itself, but either way there has to be a program that's geared towards SMEs. If we don't do that...that's why I keep referring to the technology valley of death, and I know the previous questioning was along this line. If we don't do that, those entities—we're talking about small companies. We've grown from five to sixteen employees in three to four years; we're still a rather small company. If we don't do that, these companies will go under. If they do not have the funding support to bring it to commercialization, they will go under. How many companies do we want in Canada where we invest so much taxpayer money into R and D but then don't help them to cross that chasm so that they can commercialize? It's a losing situation.