Thank you for your excellent question.
In the United States and the United Kingdom, they use a program created by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA.
This program enables collaboration between researchers and companies, who can bid together or separately on various projects, often with the government's contribution, to secure funding. It's harder to work this way in Canada. We have programs here that are really limited in that regard, but we could look at improving that.
I have heard that Minister Champagne's mandate letter would float the idea of adopting a DARPA‑style model with a distinctly Canadian approach in the coming years. I would support such a project.