Absolutely it is. I agree with you entirely. To give you a sense of scope, we did a search of how many technical standards are available online through organizations similar to ours, and the number last year was 335,000 different documents, technical standards for various sectors of industry, manufacturing, and services. Major organizations such as ISO and IAC publish more than 35,000 new standards per year.
It's impossible for a country like Canada to want to duplicate or replicate that or be everything to everybody, when you look at this kind of scale. The challenge for us is to decide when we can afford to be a standard taker and agree that we will use a standard developed internationally, sometimes even when we haven't participated because there is no interest on the part of Canada or no expertise here, and when there are areas in which we absolutely have to be standards makers. When there are leading-edge Canadian technologies and innovations, we need to go international and participate and win, so that we can access the global market. That's the kind of message we're communicating to various stakeholders.
It's unfortunate, but sometimes there is the sense that if the standard is made in Canada, it will invariably be better than if it's made internationally, and that's not always the case. For us, the issue is when we should focus internationally.