Thank you very much, Chair, and I want to thank all the witnesses for coming today.
I took note of what Dr. Laflamme said, that Canada never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity. I will memorize this as a reminder.
All my colleagues asked great questions, both today and the day before. I think now I'm more confused than before from the testimony. It's full of contradictions. I think, as with any new technology, that is actually a good thing. That will help the committee to come up with a study or recommendations that will be more comprehensive. I just feel for the analysts, who will be having trouble to put together a report.
Speaking of contradictions, I hear the explanation that it's not ready, yet it is ready. When I asked a question on Friday about the processor chip—we need to have a manufacturing capacity—I was also told that the computer processing hardware may be very different with quantum computing, so it's really hard to predict this. There is the contradiction there.
I will list a whole bunch of them, and you can explain it to me later.
In my head there is the supply chain aspect, including critical minerals that will provide the raw materials that are necessary for mass production, and then there is the manufacturing sector. To what stage should they be preparing for this disruptive technology? Then there's the research aspect of it, and we heard the testimony on this. The one contradiction was the receding globalization, but I also heard that it's necessary for Canadian researchers to work collaboratively with smart people around the world.
To me, these three main stages are full of contradictions.
I want to start with Mr. Laflamme, if you have any comment on this, and then go to Mr. Janik, Dr. Yazdi and Dr. St-Jean for comments.