Industry committee  I think you've understood me exactly correctly. My belief is that the government needs to understand that quantum computers today are not a better, faster, cheaper solution to any known problem in terms of their ability to actually deliver that, and yet we know that there are ma

Industry committee  I think we're doing a great job of attracting talent to Canada. Most of the best graduates in this space from Canadian universities have probably not been through Canadian elementary schools. I'm noticing that a lot of people come over after their undergrads to go to our grad sch

Industry committee  The things you can keep doing include investing in all of the things at the beginning of the talent pipeline. It seems that there is great work happening there, and things that can be incrementally improved on that front. What might be something that we can start doing is think

Industry committee  This will probably not make me any friends, but my suggestion would be to not use any of these advisers and to do the work yourself. It's not that challenging if you get a handle on it. I think most organizations probably have the processes already in place that track the work

Industry committee  Thank you. I think you're referring to the scientific research and experimental development tax credits, commonly known as SR and ED?

Industry committee  I would say that's been particularly helpful, especially at the very early stages of setting up 1QBIT. Our company is almost a decade old now, and being able to recoup some of the money we have invested in the experimental research we do has been very helpful. It's one of the ea

Industry committee  Sure. The quick answer is yes. I think that, although qubit count is not the only thing that we should be thinking about, if you don't have enough qubits, it's like not having enough pickets in your fence—you either can or you can't solve the problem you're looking to solve. Th

Industry committee  I think those items are not directly relevant to the current process within quantum computing, but I do think there's the possibility that advanced computing will impact all of those areas you've discussed. It's just important to recognize that at the moment there is nothing we c

Industry committee  Thanks for inviting me to share my experience with you today. My name's Andrew Fursman and I'm the CEO of 1QBit. We're a Canadian company focused on a software-first approach to quantum computing. While many companies take a qubit-first approach—where they select photonics, ion