Science and Research committee  That wasn't the issue in her case. To be clear, I think it was just a backlog issue. Her scores were off the charts. Actually, we don't know what the issue was. I think it was purely a backlog issue. I'm very sympathetic to all of the challenges they've been under with Afghanis

Science and Research committee  It's a bit of a black-box mystery. She tried very hard to find out, and she sought a lot of help. It was really hard to get colour into what was going on, other than, “You're in the queue and please be patient.”

Science and Research committee  We need a better process for that. PRs are taking forever.

Science and Research committee  Yes, exactly. We can't say, “We're not going to buy your stuff and we're not going to invest in your companies, but please don't leave Canada.” That's not going to work. I think there's really value added to engaging them, because, with something really disruptive, you need to

Science and Research committee  Yes.

Science and Research committee  I'm not saying that everyone else does a great job and we're terrible. The U.K. are our friends. I was just at the White House at a meeting discussing collaboration with other like-minded nations in this space. We do need a common quantum market, because we can't just build com

Science and Research committee  There, I was referring to when we we're bringing in.... We basically brought in NSERC, which is amazing. I think they do phenomenal work, but they can't send money to a company. They were doing their job. This is in no way whatsoever a criticism of NSERC. They're being matched up

Science and Research committee  We have done that over the years and it has helped. Several years ago, there was a person who couldn't bring his wife over, and that was obviously really hard on him. Sometimes it is escalated to that point, but for these cases.... We tried hard. There isn't an easy 1-800 number

Science and Research committee  I think that for these super niche areas where.... We need to think of these as the Toronto Raptors or the Toronto Blue Jays—

Science and Research committee  It's really hard. There are so few of them. We're working so hard to get them here. I sympathize with all the challenges Immigration and Citizenship Canada has to deal with. I'm not throwing stones there, but we just need to figure out how to escalate. We're very cognizant of tha

Science and Research committee  Thank you, Madam Chair and members of the committee. Thank you for inviting me to appear before the committee. I'm a very grateful beneficiary of the Canadian education system. I was fortunate to study at Oxford. I returned to Waterloo in 1999 as a faculty member to start a qua