Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the three witnesses for your presentations and the time you took to prepare yourselves for today.
Also, Mr. Fraser, thank you for your service in the navy. Thank you so much for that.
I want to ask Ms. Tuerk and Mr. Carter the first question.
Ms. Tuerk, you mentioned in your presentation that Canada was falling behind Germany and China. You also indicated that there was no question that a lot of the jobs in the industry are more on the clean-tech side.
Can you elaborate a bit on some recommendations on things that you feel the federal government could do, looking at China and Germany, to try get a competitive advantage here in Canada? Also, to a certain extent, we've heard from past witnesses that the U.S. is also emerging with a large clean-tech industry.