Thank you to everyone here today, especially Mr. Vigneault. Thank you for coming on such a day.
During this study, over the past number of weeks we've heard a lot of concerns about Canadian research and IP leaving the country—being stolen or leaking out in various ways. We've heard a lot from the university “ecosystem”, as we've been calling it, and though the tri-council about this business of whether we should fund, or how we can stop funding, risky researchers.
A lot of research is, obviously, carried out by the private sector. I'm wondering how you monitor that. Is there a direct way you do that with industry groups? I read something in the media about Hydro-Québec having an incident with a Chinese researcher.
Without divulging secrets, what kinds of measures do you take to ensure that those very important research results and IP stay in Canada where they belong?