Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for being here today. I'll start with Ms. Johnston and go across the panel.
The common theme we've heard today is the standardization or some type of a base element. There doesn't seem to be a lot of time for those in the entrepreneurial sector to research all the universities, find those partners, know where they are, or even to know about the regional clusters. It's almost as though a portal is missing, and a lot of time and energy are wasted on that.
Your model is to continue to have some flexibility for the decision-making for those regions. I want to dig down further on that.
Would it be appropriate to set even a base percentage or a base expectation, and then with that, measurement models about what gets to market and what doesn't? The value of measurement is more important in many respects too, because just going to market is not always the end that it should be, depending upon what's being done.
Starting with you, Ms. Johnston, and then going across the panel, do you think there is enough of a common ground for us to find that so at least Canadians can look at that? An innovator in British Columbia could look at Ontario and find a cluster and see that it is actually doing some innovative stuff related to the farming industry, for example, and see that he or she has something that might actually cross-pollinate into that.