Madam Speaker, I thank the hon. member for Durham for his very excellent address.
I would like the hon. member to elaborate further on the three tier system. The access to capital for the nurturing and development of small business in Canada is extremely important. We need to know how to get those patents into technology, technology into commercial development and production and into the marketplace.
It is a complex process, a costly process. How can we accelerate the access to our financial institutions which are reluctant to participate in this process of development and get the encouragement from day one when research at our universities becomes part of a patented process and development progress into a product that is viable and marketable in society?