Internationally, business expenditure in research and development in Canada are low, period. They're even worse in Alberta and Saskatchewan. BERD, in my province or in Alberta, is extremely low. There's been a recognition of that for a long period of time. Different types of programs have been put in place to try to accelerate business expenditures on research and development. Recently, through WINN, a WED program, we've decided to get back into the game of funding private sector businesses in the hope that maybe we could spur some of that. It's a new program.
It is difficult. In Saskatchewan, there is no lack of supply of ideas coming out of the institutes that are there, the research organizations. There's no problem there. It's just that there's no receptor capacity. The companies don't exist to pick up the ideas and run with them. The money doesn't exist to help them. In Saskatchewan, we have four venture capitalists. That's it. Even some of the highly entrepreneurial companies in Saskatchewan have to seek outside the province to grow their businesses.
I'll come up with something next year, and I'll be rich, and I'll let you know.