Research is essential and absolutely necessary. It is a major aspect. It is impossible for communities to define the progress, the advances or the challenges that remain if there is no research or evidence with which to work.
To give you an example, after the census Statistics Canada published the post-censal survey, which required funding. This document allowed us to emphasize certain aspects of development, whether it be in health, in early childhood or in other sectors.
I therefore think it would be very important for the next roadmap to include research. This was shown over the course of the research symposium organized last fall by the Official Languages Secretariat.