A quick answer is that it's what people want. As a taxpayer, what I want is good jobs in Canada. The innovation economy creates a lot of good jobs. We're a rich country, but if we want to stay rich we have to keep investing in innovation.
Automotive is booming around the world. I have collaborations with international companies—not Canadian—that do automotive manufacturing in Canada, but most of the automotive companies do not do their big R and D in Canada. That's one thing that the people here want the Canadian government to do. As an academic, I don't want to see my students going to California, to Tesla, or to Ann Arbor, Michigan, but that's where they're going.