Thank you for your presentation. It is something that we have heard a small bit about at this committee. I was out on the west coast, and there are a lot of folks out there who are really concerned because they're educating a lot of young people in the tech and innovation sector who are then heading to the U.S. They're leaving us. So there's a concern that we're not able to retain that talent here in Canada. I'm curious as to whether you have that same issue out here.
Also, talking about innovation strategy and the importance of that in Canada has been highlighted well here, but we had Jim Balsillie before the committee, the CEO of RIM, and he was quite strong in his presentation to us. He said the TPP will lock Canadian innovators into perpetual second place in the IT sector and the knowledge economy. He went on to guarantee us that there will never be another large Canadian tech company under the TPP: “The best thing for a Canadian innovator to do under TPP is to move to the United States.”
Could I get your thoughts on that and where Canada needs to go in terms of protecting innovation and ensuring that patents and the innovation remain here?