As my colleague from Axelys said, in the U.S., when you receive funding, that gets assigned to the state. Germany does the same thing, as do other nations. You don't give away your best ideas. I gave examples of how we have foundational technology in Canada worth tens of billions of dollars, if not hundreds of billions, and we give it away.
It's the institutional keeping of the ideas and then the education and the service at the firm level so that these promising young companies have the IP expertise and freedom to operate, to grow into 50-billion- or 100-billion-dollar companies. That's what drives your prosperity. That's what gets the wheel turning. If you do not have the appropriation structures, you do not get the economic outcomes, and in a changed world, if you're not getting those economic outcomes, you fall to the bottom of the OECD.
We've been at the bottom of the OECD for the last 40 years in productivity and we're forecast to be there for the next 40 years, and that's why middle-class Canadians are having trouble making ends meet.