I don't have the report in front of me, so you have me at a disadvantage. I think I was making the same point that both of the other witnesses were making. You need to fund the science. You need to fund the post-secondary education, and you need to fund the students and make sure that the students are funded at all levels through the post-secondary system in order to create the deep talent pool of technical talent.
We're living in an age that's increasingly being defined as an intangible economy, an economy that runs on data, on intellectual property, on branding and on marketing, and the intangibles are based on people with the ability to understand the talent to create the IP, to do the research and to analyze the data.
I've been studying these areas for over 20 years. I worked in government 30 years ago. The world has shifted dramatically in the past 30 years. Talent was important then; it's ten times more important now. If we don't fund, support and nurture that talent and put it out into the local labour market, we don't have the base either to grow our own domestic firms or to attract other firms into our regions. That was the fundamental point I think I was trying to make in that report.