Yes. Absolutely.
What we need to be as a nation is more ambitious. The government, in taking risk and accepting failures, needs to be more agile and talking publicly about failures, acknowledging them before saying, we're going to do this.
I remember speaking to the premier of Alberta and saying, “You need to bet on your people”. In Alberta, people go through booms and bust, and as industry was going down and he was thinking about diversifying, I was like, why wouldn't you bet on the people who tolerate the risk the highest in Canada?
Right now, if you look at Alberta's economy, they were the ones with the highest growth in venture in the last quarter and in the last year. Yes, government.
It's not saying that governments need to make uninformed decisions about the allocation of taxpayer dollars. I can point to examples where the dollars are returned, profit is made. The policy imperatives that we're talking about today in growing our economy and being more solidly positioned for the future are the benefits that are accrued by being involved, but we need to be focused.