Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Lampron, you talked about a number of initiatives having to do with funding and research. In respect of the two pieces dealing with the funding mechanism, one has to do with the next Growing Forward piece, which we're investigating in light of that five-year piece. Madam Désilets talked about the need for some flexibility inside that. I want to ask you about the need to know that the funding is in place for the five-year period.
You also talked about core funding and what that would mean for the longer term. You're right about researchers at university—they're usually chasing the next grant, trying to stay in the business of continuing to do research. They'll research something else if the grant evaporates. They'll go to stream B or C or D, or whatever the case may be, depending on where the money flows.
You talked to those two issues, about how you see them as being either separate or linked together, if indeed they are; I'm not sure that they are linked. I leave that for you to explain to us. How do you see those two pieces as being integral, as you move forward, in the necessity to ensure that stable funding, and indeed the funding at all, in Growing Forward 2 for that five-year period?