Industry committee  Can I talk about potato chips for a minute? With Miss Vickie's—and I challenge most people who went to an entrepreneurial area—I know the women who was her mentor in Collingwood and who helped make what was just enough chips to sell in a church basement grow into a product that i

Industry committee  No, but it's the first time I've heard of it—

Industry committee  —so I'm going to look into it. You never know, it might be a good program for Georgian.

Industry committee  All right.

Industry committee  Yes. It's a costly process, and I would say we don't have the resources to address it. I think it's a place where if Canada wanted to take a good look at how we could do this, it would be wise. We know in Europe they have a Bologna accord, where there is an agreement between all

Industry committee  We can sign agreements, but if the professional bodies don't accept them them, we still have the same problem.

Industry committee  It's pretty interesting, because actually our provincial government is asking us for differentiation, not to repeat what everybody else is doing. For example, we happen to have the only marine cadet and pilot program and technologist program in Ontario, because that supplies the

Industry committee  No. We hope that will be an investment as a result of the $2 billion you've set aside for infrastructure funding.

Industry committee  Absolutely.

Industry committee  They would be so much so that our county and the City of Barrie have put up a $10-million match-up. That's how critical it is to our economy.

Industry committee  It would be so that ecosystem could begin creating that pipeline in which you can incubate something; you can test it; you can have an open space where different sectors come together. We don't have that throughout central Ontario.

Industry committee  If you made a comparison between the range and the resources in those centres and what's in universities, I would say we're probably at 20% of what's going on in the university sector.

Industry committee  We just need to close that gap.

Industry committee  Can I add something as well, please? This is a good idea for you to consider. There's an angel investors group in Owen Sound that is about to create a repayment fund. It would be interesting for your committee to look at seeding money that would be managed by a group. When busi

Industry committee  We've embedded entrepreneurial objectives into every program, every one of 120 programs. I used to say colleges and universities were trying to get out ahead of who was going to be the best at entrepreneurship. Everybody needs to own this space. There's skill that you need to und