Do you really want to know all the great opportunities Canadian investors are missing when they don't invest in their local tech sectors? If you can stomach it take a look at Mercury News' 10 Tech Trends of 2005. Odds are some of them were Canadian ideas some smart Silicon Valley VC Partnership scooped up for a song north of the border. The List:

John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins

Reinvention in Web services, such as search, commerce, personalization, browsers.

Embryonic stem cell research resulting in new therapies, with California leading.

Esther Dyson, CNet Networks

The personal electronic health record, leading to new data applications, health-oriented search.

Cell-phone text messaging, spawning services such as personalized marketing.

Roger McNamee, Elevation Partners

No major waves of enterprise tech spending equivalent to Windows or Y2K for at least five years.

Consumer technology and content targeting people over 30 more successful than products for younger people.

Tony Perkins, AlwaysOn

Open source media revolution, fueling content creators, application developers, blogging and social networking tools.

Utility'' computing, which will help tech business grow.

Joe Schoendorf, Accel Partners

China poised to lead in inventing ``the next big thing.''

Digital living in which content is stored once and used anywhere.

Source: Churchill Club