Thank you very much.
It's always great to see colleagues from the Department of Industry. I remember working over there as a parliamentary secretary. I really appreciated the work you did, because it seemed to be very non-partisan.
I do want to ask you a question, though. I'm a little surprised by the fact that you're still the department of “industry”, because when the government came in, they actually changed the name to, I think, “science and innovation”. I remember joking that this was the first time Canada didn't have a minister of industry.
You're still over at the C.D. Howe Building. He was a great Liberal cabinet minister and a very big champion of industry. The government made a big issue about science and innovation. The C.D. Howe Institute came out with “Canada’s 2018 Innovation Policy Report Card”, which looked at 14 countries to see our standing. Canada is 14th. This was the C.D. Howe report card.
We know that the government really wants to focus on improving the innovation. We had this talk about competitiveness and how important it is for competitiveness to be really innovative. I tried to ask the minister what she's recommended to Minister Morneau to move forward to improve our competitiveness. I'm wondering if you have any specific recommendations we could maybe forward to the minister to help improve our ability to innovate.
Scoring number 14 on a report card just doesn't give me a lot of confidence. Are there some recommendations you could make to help improve that number?