Thank you for the question.
I think this is a very important question, especially when Canada is going forward in its EV industry, electric vehicles. There will be more microchips in your cars, which means the demand for microchips will keep on going. Also, at the same time, the supply chain of microchips is very long and complicated.
I will say there is a lot of opportunity for Taiwan and Canada to work together. For example, the largest company from Taiwan, TSMC, already has a design centre in Canada. That's in addition to the U.S. This is the only one on the American continent.
I have visited the research centre and asked the same questions as you. I was told, first, that Canada and Taiwan can have a lot of mutual support. For example, when you are moving into the next stage, you want to incorporate more technology into the microchips so they will be multi-tasking. For example, Canada is very good in AI, but how do you incorporate AI into the chips? That will be very important. That will be the determining factor of your competitiveness. In this case, I would say the software engineers should work directly with the Taiwanese chipmakers. In this way, there's no need to go through very complicated and different layers of suppliers. In that case, you can have your design already embedded in these microchips, which means that Taiwan can provide the microchips which are really reflecting Canadian technology and making sure you have the leading edge.
Thank you.