Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for a wonderful presentation this morning. There is a lot of insightful information here that's going to be very helpful to us.
One of the things I wanted to talk about this morning was IP protection and patent protection. In the Industry Canada deck that you've provided us with, you talk about IP protection. In the end, essentially you say that when there's financial support given to a private sector individual or company, the IP remains with them.
What are we doing to support them to make sure that IP protection is being adequately placed by them so that they are protecting themselves from outside interests infringing on their IP? It's great that we're investing a lot of finances into these companies and helping them to build this, but how are we working closely with them to make sure they are protecting that IP?