Thank you very much for that question, member. Your question is a very serious question. It certainly deserves a proper response because of its heightened interest today around the concerns of water.
There are several gaps in water research in the country. We have a handful of universities that do excellent research in water. They certainly stand up to international peer review. However, it is important that we identify the gaps in the research.
You've talked about vegetative buffer strips to reduce nutrient pollution and other areas of research, but when you think about the water sector and how broad it is, some of the areas that we know very little about are some of the emerging new pathogens and contaminants. Microplastics, for example, are of serious concern to the environment, and we need to pick up the pace on that and fund that kind of research on those new, emergent areas.
The use of remote sensing technologies in agricultural production needs to be expanded. We're a leader in RADARSAT, for example. How do we bring that to the forefront by bringing new researchers and new science to the program?