Not only would that improve customer service from their governments for Canadians and citizens, but it would also be a significant return on a small investment, as you say. Estonia has certainly reaped significant economic rewards overall.
On innovation, there was a report in the Globe that the National Research Council has made an agreement with CanSino. We are going to foot the bill to some extent, but we have no IP and no guarantee of supply. Natalie Raffoul and Jim Hinton called it innovation “philanthropy”. They point not only to that example but to similar university networks supporting 5G research, AI research and the research on batteries out of Dalhousie that Tesla has managed to profit from.
Along the way, we are funding research and we are not reaping the benefits. Those two authors recommend an “IP collective”, and I think Jim Hinton is part of building out an IP collective. This is one of your main recommendations here as well. How does that help? Walk me through how an IP collective would support Canadian innovation.