That is indeed a problem for us, and we've tried to tackle it. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada opted to work on plants and decided that universities would deal with animal genetics or genomics. But it's not that easy. The fact is a good many universities have cut their capacity, including the University of Guelph, which had long been a pioneer in the field. It cut its faculty size by 30%. The situation isn't good, with senior researchers leaving Canada. Some have left the University of Alberta for New Zealand. Others have gone to Australia and so forth.
On the research front, our situation isn't what it was five or ten years ago. Semex is trying to combat the problem. For instance, industry decided to hire the researcher whose position had been cut by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. In situations like the University of Guelph's, where positions were not renewed, we try to offset that through financial investments, but we would still like to see things working on both ends.