Jim, you and I have spoken a number of times on IP strategies. When I read yesterday's budget, I feel as though maybe your comments are being heeded in some respects and your advocacy is being listened to.
I read that there's going to be a program to help accelerators, incubators, provide start-ups with access to expert IP services and that IRAP will provide high-growth firms with access to expert IP services. Then there was one line, but it wasn't expounded upon in a serious way, which said that a strategic IP program review will be launched which will do a broad assessment of IP “provisions in Canada's innovation and science programming” to “make sure Canada and Canadians fully benefit from innovations and intellectual property.”
I know it was one line relating to strategic IP program review, but if developed in a fulsome way, it would get at some of the concerns you're talking about, including that the superclusters program or other government financing isn't really considering IP in a serious way. Do you think there's reason to be optimistic when you consider these provisions?