Thanks.
Thank you to all of you. It's always nice to have a Pike back, being my other family name.
Ms. Bak, I would like to go to you. I would like to thank you additionally for the background materials that you provided and additional ones my staff looked up. I commend your association.
I noticed in your materials that you outline that the clean tech sector is almost 100% small and medium industry, and that they create over 60% of private sector jobs. In keeping with what Mr. Teed said, it's obviously the preference of any worker in Canada with a family to have a well-paying job and stay in their community.
Your documents outline some of the challenges facing your sector, and you also outline some of the potential. I'm going to give you an opportunity to expand a bit more on what the potential for economic diversification is—as opposed to just market diversification—from your sector, and what some of the challenges you face are where the federal government could assist in building the clean tech sector.