The flavour of how that group of people is formed is very important. If it is simply a part-time job, staffed by people who have skin in the game, there is going to be squabbling over more funding for their own particular version of quantum and their own particular flavour.
The model that I would like to recommend is a team of people that is funded separately, independently and well. The salaries here are in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, but you need to have a team of people that the government could go to and say “Is this bid or this application warranted?” They can be the ones, for example, to choose external experts to do some due diligence.
It's the lack of due diligence, awareness and consulting capability within the government that means we have no single point to go to talk to. There's no team of people, and teams exist. They exist in the U.S. They exist in the U.K. They exist in Australia. I know all of them. I know the ones in Germany. I know the ones in France. There are none in Canada.
I can't even go and speak with a team of quantum experts who are paid by the government to be able to offer policy recommendations to the government. It should not necessarily be me and my part-time staff, or any of the other people around this table. Although we have our views, you need to have a team of independent experts who could navigate or help navigate the space. They're going to be expensive, and they're only going to be more expensive over time.
It's important that they have that independence and not currently wear another hat. Otherwise, you have that natural bias that creeps in, when people start to think territorially.