Okay, there's a lot in there.
We talk about the driverless car, the connecting car, and the autonomous vehicle. You'll hear people talk about how the next big auto companies could potentially be some combination of Apple, Google, and Microsoft and how the service of transportation provided by a car is essentially going to be increasingly defined by automated software.
And you see investments. You see the recent investment by GM. There was a bad disinvestment as well, but the recent investment by GM in its innovation centre in Oshawa for the connected car kind of shows how it values some of the expertise in Ontario for really developing some of that technology. We have QNX, and we have the whole Waterloo cluster, etc.
Clearly if a connected car talks to infrastructure, somebody's going to have to change that infrastructure so that it can talk to the car. A connected car talks to other cars. Well, what's the model going to be? Are they going to speak the same language? A connected car talks to the environment. Is it okay to trust the car's sensors to keep you away from a tree that fell on the road or to tell the difference between a dog and a baby? All these kinds of questions come up with a truly disruptive product like the driverless car.
In terms of the global leaders question, let's be clear. There are leading manufacturing nations. Germany has always been among them, as has the United States certainly. There are places that in a lot of ways define the standards and define the cutting edge almost across the board. In Canada we have the opportunity to figure out the areas in which we have interesting things to build on. It's unlikely that a country Canada's size is going to be a world beater everywhere, but we can absolutely be a world beater in certain niches.