Industry committee  Yes. Can I phrase it as a Jeopardy question? If I'm a young aggressive entrepreneur in biotech and—forgive me, my Toronto friends—I'm living in Toronto, the smartest thing I might be able to do is move to Boston. Okay? I want to know, to what question is the answer: “move to Toronto”, “move to Vancouver”, or “move to Montreal”?

Industry committee  Yes, thank you for the question, Madam. Let me tell a short personal story. When I left school in Silicon Valley, the question was, “Are you going to work for me, or am I going to work for you?” That's what everyone asked, and that question was possible because there were so many different pieces of the system in place there.

Industry committee  I'm a kid from Kingston. I spent 15 years in Silicon Valley and I came back to Canada. I also don't see this distinction between basic and applied. To speak to Kevin's comments, I worked in a group that combined material science, computer science, electrical engineering, and physics to try to invent some new computer pieces at Hewlett-Packard, new components.