Mr. Chair, I thank my friend Mr. Longfield for sharing his time.
Thank you for presenting today. Intellectual property is kind of a personal passion of mine. My apologies to the gentlemen at the other end of table, but I'll probably focus my questions on the two friends closest. I'm appropriately positioned.
There are three things I want to talk about. The first is with regard to your recommendations, the first patent program and the innovation box. If we have time, I'd then like to spend a little bit of time talking about intellectual property policies at Canadian universities and see if you guys have any opinions on that.
On the first patent program, I like the idea in general. I think it's very interesting. Of course, Quebec is new, so we don't have as much data as we might like. Are there any other countries in the world that are doing this that we could look to? Given that we've gone through a full year, do you have any information on who's actually utilizing the program—industry, academics, small business, large business, etc.?