Sure.
To be fair, there is a great role for industry and for the non-governmental side of things to fund science. I mean, that fundamentally is what WCS Canada is—a scientific organization. We fund through private funds, through grants, through other different mechanisms, not strictly through public funding. But the advantage of investment of public funds in science is critical. Public funds can be used to look at long-term questions that go across borders, that aren't limited to specific industrial or economic needs.
I always think that, you know, the government governs for our grandchildren, and we do science for our grandchildren and for our great-grandchildren. I don't have any yet, but I will some day. The idea is that public funding and public investment in science—through restoration funds to NSERC to restoration of the scientific community within the federal government—is critical. That, with funding back to universities, is critical for us to be able to look at the long term.