—and about the according seating arrangements on the aircraft. If I were 5 foot 7 and 149 pounds, I could fly comfortably.
All kidding aside, I really do appreciate the insights you have.
Mr. Holm, I do have some questions very specifically for you. You talked about your photo-bioreactor, your applications, and all the aspects of refining and processing, and that it's a unique Canadian technology. We have the technology and so on here to back that up. That has all come about because of what Mr. Desrochers says: we've evolved out of the agricultural age through the industrial age. We're now in the information age. Because we have more people in our universities and colleges who are thinking, we have people who are able to do more than just get by on subsistence living, which is what we used to do hundreds of years ago.
I'm wondering if you could expand on the link that your company has had between universities and colleges and the ability to get these new technologies once they're developed and commercialized. I'm sure Mr. Desrochers could speak to that more broadly as well.
As well, can you talk about the intellectual property regime and how important that is? I believe the value in your company isn't so much in the ability to actually do what your company does. I believe the value in your company is probably based on the fact that you have some intellectual property that you've patented and you have a unique technology that will solve it. I believe that's where the real true value in this comes.
Mr. Desrochers, perhaps more broadly, you spoke about the carbon side of things, but I firmly believe that in terms of the intellectual property aspect, the development of our modern societies today has come about because of the technological advances that wouldn't have come about if we hadn't had stringent intellectual property regimes that provided for those opportunities to happen.
Perhaps you guys could comment on those aspects of your companies and in the broader context.