Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to all of the witnesses for being here tonight. As a chemical engineer, I started my career in research doing hollow fibre membrane separations for artificial kidneys in dialysis, so I certainly value all of your contributions here tonight.
I want to start with you, Mr. Winter. It seems to me that, if I look at what's happened over the past number of years, we have eliminated the ministry of science, the $4 billion of increased funding that was suggested from the Naylor report didn't appear, and we put money into superclusters but we didn't really put the money towards participation in global innovation.
What would you like to see from the federal government in order to really spur innovation ahead in Canada?