Government Operations committee  There is a difference.

Government Operations committee  Thank you very much.

Government Operations committee  No, I think Annette answered it well.

Government Operations committee  I'm meeting with people weekly, answering questions. With pretty much any student or anyone who has called, I don't think I've ever not either taken them on as a mentee or not met with them and at least provided initial guidance or set up other mentors. I think it's very valuable

Government Operations committee  Sure. I'll do my best. Some of this came through the work on the growth council. I know I won't do it justice, but there's more in the reports of the growth council, where it was really a way to try to drive innovation. The supply push is really about the idea of how we make sur

Government Operations committee  The demand is where the government might say, if we could come up with a really cool new idea.... I think the IESO example that Annette gave would be a good one. Let's say they said they wanted to try new forms of storage capability on the grid. But what is kind of new? Governmen

Government Operations committee  —the least likely to take risk. On a nascent technology, sometimes you think about the cost benefit of it, but there is the opportunity on energy saving or conservation. I think we have examples of where governments encourage it, but how do we do more of that? That's where we're

Government Operations committee  That's right.

Government Operations committee  Right. We saw that when I was on a panel for the Ontario government last year that was specifically on procurement in health care. I think one of the key recommendations that came out of that was that we tend to be very prescriptive in what we're looking for as opposed to—to Anne

Government Operations committee  You have to think of the transactional cost of getting ready for the bid, right?

Government Operations committee  To your point exactly, if that cost is just too overwhelming.... It's true for big companies too. I mean, you're always comparing how much time and effort to get what prize. Like, what are you going after? I think if in designing the program you think about the outcomes you want

Government Operations committee  We don't want to do it either.

Government Operations committee  I totally agree.

Government Operations committee  I'll add to that. Why don't they have access to capital? I think we go back to what Annette talked about, too, in terms of that network. The fact of the matter is that when you look at financial services and at venture capital, still the majority of the decision-makers are male.

Government Operations committee  In answer to your question, there are a number of specific reports, whether it's the Ernst & Young report, the Conference Board of Canada report, or even the World Economic Forum report. In all three cases, not to mention the anecdotal and sometimes quantitative measures that