Thank you, Chair. It's an honour to be at this committee.
Mr. Hinton, I want to start with you. I was interested in how you talked about how IP is leveraged against companies, against our potential innovation. We certainly know that, with Google, Amazon, Meta and Apple, there is this whole concept of this kill zone for innovation. Their data banks are without parallel. They have predictive abilities to anticipate. They have a massive legal war chest and control of the market.
How do we, as Canadians, even play in that game when we see the kill zone of innovation around so many start-ups?