Thank you, Chair.
Thank you for being here, witnesses.
I'd just like to pick up on the comments made by my colleague across the table that he believes in direct assistance to businesses.
Having been a small businessman in my previous life for close to 25 years, owning my own small company, being a member of the chamber, sitting on our board, and heading up the Ontario Home Builders' Association in the middle of the nineties....
With that frame of reference, that background, do your organizations support direct intervention by governments to assist businesses in acquiring technologies?