I think we're still second to none in fundamental science and technology development and so on. We wrote the business plan for owning the quantum world, and we raced ahead in implementing it, and we still have absolutely world-class assets, very much to be proud of, all across the country—in Quebec, Ontario, the west, and the Maritimes. We have a lot going for us on the fundamental science in tech, and we're sort of inching forward toward more applied stuff.
This is sort of separate from the cybersecurity thing. Quantum-Safe Canada can be one pillar of a broader quantum strategy to really own the podium in terms of benefiting economically from these decades of investments, but that coordination isn't happening yet. It is urgently needed, because we're talking about tens of billions of dollars being invested around the world in sort of eating that lunch that we've been preparing for however many decades.
We need to do that very quickly if we're serious about this. We don't want this to be the quantum Avro Arrow, so there's a great urgency to coordinate these wonderful assets we have in quantum. Again, Quantum-Safe Canada could be the leading piece of that, and as these other pieces keep maturing, we can also own the podium economically in quantum tech—not just tech, but the applications, the software and so on, the uses of quantum computing and quantum technology.