Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Welcome to all of our guests here this morning.
We have had so much information here today, and it will be very interesting trying to work our way through it.
Mr. Gold, you mentioned that you're looking at the university model as somewhat broken. We've had 30 years of doing the same thing and wondering why we're not getting better results and, of course, that's what our major study is about. It's about how do we manage and take a look at where all the funding is? How are we getting the bang for our buck and so on? In a lot of ways it's as though we are trying to find ways to enhance what we have done already, but without looking at what the results are. That is really part of it. And then there is the discussion on having a national university policy. We understand the structure that we have in this country and how it's difficult even if you have different universities in the same province, let alone having something that's going to work at a national level.
Those are my observations. Of course, there are other things we've heard. Making sure there is better broadband for rural areas is critical, and a gigabyte for business is what is needed. But there are so many businesses out there. In our visit to the U.S, and of course in all the discussions we've had with Canadian businesses, we can't forget the smaller areas. That's where the resources are. That's where the wealth is. The people, for their wealth, are in the big cities, but if you look at what makes Canada go, it's the rest of the country. When you think about that—and the discussion is working its way to that right now—we have to think about perhaps having different tax structures or things that can help to bring in angel investors and ensure they are there to help people over the original hump that we have.
Perhaps I'll go to Mr. Gold first, then to Mr. Smith, because I know that you've talked about tax structures. Could you talk a bit about what you might see us doing from a government perspective as far as some of the different tax incentives taxes are concerned?