Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to say what a great job you're doing in the chair's stead.
I'm going to start with Mr. Singh.
You talked about the successful commercialization of IP. I want to come at it from the standpoint of small and medium-sized businesses. They are a big concern of mine because you find a lot of them in rural and remote areas. I'm somewhat of a spokesperson for them.
I'd like to know how small and medium-sized businesses could work more directly with universities.
Remote areas don't have universities or CEGEPs, so businesses have to turn to equipment suppliers, which do the research for them.
There are small businesses with the IP rights for incredible innovations, businesses that have grown from two to 100 employees, businesses that have invented a number of products and techniques you may not even know about.
What can be done to improve the relationship between universities and those businesses, which don't have a place in the ecosystem?