Finance committee  I think creating the ecosystem that we have in Waterloo region is part of the safeguard that we can replicate across the country, because if we provide the incentives and the partnerships for people to stay here in Canada, they will stay here in Canada. I think if we put too many

Finance committee  I think we have to look at it from a different perspective. We are enabling the researchers to create technologies that will have huge societal impact, that will potentially give back to both taxpayers and to the university. Let's take Mike Lazaridis as an example. Mike Lazarid

Finance committee  I don't think there are researchers within the Institute for Quantum Computing who are hesitant to work with other jurisdictions, particularly because the University of Waterloo has a unique IP policy. Our intellectual property policy is inventor-owned. The researchers actually o

Finance committee  I'll take that one. The interesting part about what we can do here in Canada is we're seeing lots of investment in quantum computing around the world. In IQC and other places around Canada, we're doing a broader scale of research. We're looking at quantum communication, satellit

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the committee for the opportunity to speak to you today about the importance of the investment in fundamental science, in particular quantum science. Quantum science and technologies are poised to be the economic engine of the 21st century.