I'll be very quick.
I have to respectfully disagree with Dr. Leblond. I agree on the national security side—I'm not going to go there—but when I hear that you want to start looking now at the protection of Canadian IP and at the competitiveness, however you're going to measure that in industries that are very dynamic....
I want to give a quick “for instance”. Last November, I had never really heard of ChatGPT, and now I've decided, after a two-hour seminar I watched two days ago by Dr. Tony Bailetti in his technology innovation program, that I'm going to spend the entire summer getting up to speed to embed it in my course. This is in the space of four months. This is how quickly things are moving.
However, the language of various members of the committee suggests that in the commercial sphere—and I'm not talking about the Chinese or threats to national security—we can somehow fix it. We'll say, “Okay, Rona, you're going to do all these things for the next five years,” which implicitly suggests that there's no change in the markets.
The markets are just far too dynamic. I don't think you can go down that road.