Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Gerard, and other witnesses for being here today.
It's interesting; I took some notes and then your questions at the end summarized a bit where I was going to go with my questioning.
The first question you asked that jumps out at me is: where are Canada's technology development hotbeds? But I'll add something to that. It seems we have them all across the country. In my conversations, it often seems that folks are doing amazing things but are not necessarily aware of what's going on in other parts of the country.
“Where are they?” would be a good question, but how are they connected? What's being done to connect them and to maximize the promising practices in each area of the country so that others can take advantage of them without reinventing the wheel?