I'll take this one.
Thank you for the question, Denis.
I absolutely do agree with that, yes. We still need project-oriented research. We still need short-term research projects, yes. But we still need to have a strong baseline in fundamental research that answers questions that maybe aren't important to industry or society now but could be important later on.
This is the type of research that was done as recently as 30 years ago, answering some fundamental questions about the science, about the biology, without necessarily having a commercial goal in mind.
So yes, I would absolutely support that, somehow, public funding goes towards that type of support for researchers. These are very creative people; they're highly intelligent, highly trained. We should let them have some free rein, to let their creativeness bear fruit for Canada.