Resources depend upon interest. Until we can stimulate interest within the university to go in and tackle this as a significant Canadian problem, you're not going to have too many people applying. When I say people, I mean people at a senior level who are skilled in carrying out research and can be identified.
I remember that one day a gentleman knocked on my door. He turned out to be the director of the Canadian Space Agency. He came to visit me in my lab and introduced himself. He'd heard about my work and said, “Would you put a grant application in?”