There's an old saying that money goes where it's wanted and stays where it's appreciated. I think that sort of saying could work here as well.
Investment went into crypto companies, small start-ups and large public companies because people were excited about it. They can see it's going somewhere, whether it's us in digital mining or people doing different things with blockchains. It's going to stay and keep growing where it's appreciated.
Canada as a country has to appreciate the technology that's being built, the companies that are being built, the people who are building this. We partner with SFU as well, and the technology we get out of big data in SFU is paramount to our growing our business.
When you ask where it is going to go, well, it's going to grow well in Canada if we understand the rules and if there's co-operation with the government to work with business, both private and public. If not, if we continue to have problems, then the business will go where it's appreciated—somewhere else.
Right now a lot of it's going to the U.S. It doesn't have to be that way. Canada is just as competitive, and in some ways more competitive when you look at our business in crypto mining. We are a much better jurisdiction than the U.S. for many reasons, but it's really about what Canada decides it wants to do with this industry. Does it want to foster it and grow it? Does it appreciate the technology, the jobs, the investment that are coming into it? Does it want to grow that, or does it want to sit back and see what other countries do and how they manage it?
I think this is what's happening right now, and this is why our coalition is here. We really believe Canada can be at the forefront in this industry, just as it is in the forefront in many other industries around the world.