Thank you very much, everyone, for joining us tonight.
Mr. Pomeroy, I'm going to start with you.
I come from a rural region of Canada. Saskatchewan is very rural, as is Canada. Of all the 4,000 municipalities in Canada, 3,790 are rural. Of the rest, only 94 are urban.
Can you tell me what you've seen and what you're studying? How important is rural innovation, commercialization and research in rural Canada, including indigenous areas as you've mentioned, compared to just our urban centres?