Mr. Chairman, in fact, in last year's budget, as I indicated in my statement, we did receive $100 million: $40 million to the direct costs of research, $40 million to the indirect costs, and another $20 million to the Canadian Foundation for Innovation. The important thing for us was the recognition of the importance of university research as a major contributor to Canada's competitiveness and productivity. No, it's never everything that we want, but it was a major contribution.
The point I would like to make is that the shortfall, and you will have seen in our brief that we've identified that it is the most critical for the universities.... We have set a target of reaching 40% of indirect costs as being the real cost of supporting research inside the universities. We are still at an average of only 26%, and this is an area that really does have to be shored up.