I can start.
First and foremost, I think the more opportunities that domestic innovators have to be part of key dialogues and forums with our own Canadian decision-makers.... This is super important.
I'll offer a concrete example. When I was a public servant, there was this really big contention between delivering on vendor polling or public polling versus user research. I think it's really important that public officials who are developing public legislation or public regulation actually test out these regulations with those who will be impacted by them. What I mean by this is that if you're going to put out a regulation that will impact the building of that within Canada, make sure it's constantly being tested and iterated upon with those who will be impacted by it—the end-users, as they would be called in product cycles.
Really, I think governments are no different. If anything, there is more pressure and obligation to ensure that the end-users understand how that's unfolding and how that's developing. As we're building these regulations or frameworks that would impact innovators, it's really incumbent upon us that forums are done in consultation and collaboration with the Canadian innovators who would be impacted by them.
