Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Madam Gagné, for appearing before our committee again.
Mr. Hinton, welcome to Ottawa. I believe the last time we met was in December when we made the announcement about ElevateIP and the $90-million investment the federal government made into accelerators and such incubators as Communitech, which got $38 million of that. That will help companies in Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Of course, you were at that announcement. Here's a quote that you gave us at that time. You said that, without protection, “IP is going to flow out of the country. Then the value from that IP being commercialized is lost forever and then we're going to have to pay to use that technology, even though we built it.” It was similar to what you said in your opening comments this morning.
As the founder of Own Innovation, you'll be directly involved in advising start-ups through the ElevateIP program. Can you tell us how you and your company are benefiting from that and how this ElevateIP program will help address some of these problems that you've been identifying in your testimony this morning?