Thank you, Ms. Beauger.
I'll take the liberty of adding to your comments.
Of course, further details would help. As you mentioned, we need to talk about patents. In terms of Triad patents, which is what a series of patents for a given invention in Europe, Japan and the United States are called, Canada ranked 19th out of 37 countries per capita. I'm no expert in mathematics, but 19th out of 37 means that Canada would not necessarily qualify to be a G7 country.
I'll continue with some further questions.
In your opening address, Ms. Beauger, You went on to talk about the low level of investment by the Canadian government in research and development. You said that Canada lagged behind the G7 countries in 2019.
I would nevertheless like to add that Canada was the only G7 country to have reduced its funding over the past 20 years. It's also the only country to have lost some of its researchers over the past six years. I think the picture is still rather bleak, and I'm trying to understand it.
As someone who headed an organization like IRICoR, can you tell us what companies in this sector are doing to become competitive and raise their profile internationally, when we have a government that does not make research and development funding a priority?
I'd like to hear what you have to say about that.