Thank you, Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for being here.
Since it is my first time, I must say what an honour it is to be here and to be continuing the work we began when I was first elected. I worked with the chair and I was the critic for science. We were trying to determine what to do to help science in Canada. We wanted to see where Canada could lead and how we could maintain that position. We wanted to see where we needed to maintain research and science so we could support our GDP and where we really needed to partner globally in order to afford to be able to do some of the open science and larger research. Then we wanted to identify some of the barriers that we've talked about tonight in terms of resources, like the brain drain and trying to get more women into science, engineering and math.
My first question is for Dr. Murphy.
You talked about research and the difficulty with commercialization. I do see that a lot of the research we do in Canada ends up, at the end of the day, being commercialized in another country. What are the barriers? What things should we be doing to try to keep the research that's happening turning into commercialization here in Canada?