Finance committee  Thank you for your point. I think this is where we reinforce the importance of creating that ecosystem in Canada that will foster and nurture commercialization, so that when you have something that can be commercialized, you don't go to Silicon Valley or to Europe to commercializ

Finance committee  Yes, and I will add that this is not only happening in Waterloo. Canada is a nation, and this is happening across Canada. There are some very good research centres in Vancouver, Sherbrooke, Montreal and Ottawa. We all talk to each other. We are part of a community and we all know

Finance committee  It depends on what stage the research is at. There is currently still basic research to be done when it comes to quantum technologies. We know that those technologies are very powerful and we know about a few applications, but we are still trying to understand other applications

Finance committee  Yes, absolutely.

Finance committee  I'm Martin Laforest. I work with Tobi at the Institute for Quantum Computing. When you mentioned that we are creating a particular niche, I would like to come back to that. Yes, maybe now it looks like a niche, quantum technologies, but the impact that quantum technologies can