Thanks for the excellent question.
As a company grows, especially a deep tech company like ours, access to two things becomes very critical. One is funding and the other is talent. I believe we could do better on both counts here in Canada.
With respect to talent, as Professor Laflamme mentioned, there is a very competitive market out there. We are competing against the likes of Google and IBM and the salaries and job conditions they can offer. That's very hard. It doesn't help that our visa system doesn't support bringing in talent from outside.
Right now, it's very hard to hire an experimental quantum physicist. You have to go through a lot of bureaucracy to get an LMIA certificate. It would be much easier for me to hire a cook here in Montreal than to hire an experimental physicist. That has to change.