I do think my comments around the total amount of money we as a country are investing in research and development applies to not just government but also business. So part of what we, as government, need to do—and this was part of my work with the B.C. government—is to determine how to create the environment into which we can attract companies wanting to invest in IP, in new products, etc., here in Canada.
If we look, for example, at the forest industry, a lot of the companies involved in the forest industry here have done very well over the years, but they're really lumber companies; they're exporting lumber. If you look at forestry companies in other countries, generally they've moved up the supply chain and up the value-added chain into chemicals, into fibres, into materials of different types, etc. That's all because the government, academia and industry have come together and decided, for Finland or New Zealand or other places, that doing this is really important to the country. If we are able to bring these groups together, then we can focus on the application for the country but also for export. Again, if we look at our natural resources areas, we've generally not developed the ability to export a lot of the expertise around, for example, mining. In Australia, if we look at the amount of GDP per capita that is contributed by the services the mining industry provides the rest of the world, it's actually greater than the amount from natural resources that are exported from Australia.
We have to be able to use whatever we have in the way of resources in the highest product way possible. The only way I know of to do that is to make that a priority within a province or within a government and to be able to bring industry, academia and government together to make sure that all the tools we have support that area we're going to invest in. That's really economic development. The piece we're missing, really, is the context for the investments we want to make.
I may not have answered all of your questions, but that's at least part of it.