Thank you for that question.
Certainly we do need a pathologist in Summerland, particularly because we do have such a horticultural focus at the Summerland Agricultural Research Centre site.
The Okanagan is known not only for tree fruits but for wine grapes. It has built up quite a reputation for those now, so there are certainly pathology needs there for that industry as well.
I'm just wondering how much longer we'll go without a researcher, because I can recall in the past some very important work done by the individual who did retire.
I would only suggest that if we were having trouble attracting candidates from Canadian universities for this position that we look to foreign universities, because a lot of tremendous expertise can come from foreign countries, and in a lot of cases those individuals are also from countries that learn English. So they're coming as ready-made research specialists.