From other witnesses we've had before, it seems that first-stage innovation is where we fail in Canada. Dr. Gaffield talked about applied research funding being frozen here, but in the U.S. they go even a little further, with organizations like DARPA doing massive first-stage innovation on behalf of companies, and with U.S. EnergyWorks, which has a program called Earthshots, providing the actual tangibles for green energy, from solar to geothermal.
Is that something we should be looking at again? Do you have any advice or recommendations for applied research or first-stage innovation for Canadian companies and how we would merge that with developing our IP?