Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank all of our presenters for being here today and for answering our questions.
I'd like to take this in a bit of a different direction. One of the interesting things we're able to do as parliamentarians is to travel to other countries, learn what they're doing and what they're doing differently, identify the successes and failures, and perhaps bring those lessons back. One of the trips I was able to go on that I found the most intriguing was a trip to Israel. On that trip to Israel, I learned a few things that I'd had no idea about. Number one was that in terms of start-up tech companies...the most densely populated in the world, Tel Aviv is blowing up. We had about a five-hour presentation during which they explained how this was all started and how they managed to keep their IP and grow it into businesses, etc. It was really about the alignment of government priorities with the private sector.
Now, we don't have all the things that they have going on. Security is a major export for them. We have the U.S. beside us, not countries that believe we shouldn't exist, so there are some definite differences.
I'm wondering if you could give me any examples of where you have seen the prioritization, or the government has demonstrated the prioritization, of what we already have as our major assets in Canada in terms of leveraging them. We have huge natural resources, whether it's oil...northern Ontario, or northern Quebec. How can we use the assets we have to develop better policy for IP and to develop better synchronization between those natural resource sectors and IP entrepreneurs as they grow and take those things to market?