There are a couple of things I want to respond to.
First of all, I'm a firm believer in the big universities doing what they're doing. It is very, very important for us as a nation to have that strength of the large research universities pushing the agenda the way they are; but we also have to recognize that the regional universities have a real responsibility on the ground in doing things that can't necessarily be done. So thank you for that support.
I just want to give you an example of our shellfish work. Shellfish farmers who have a lease on the B.C. coast are lucky if they make thirty grand a year. They have no R and D capacity. We're building a shellfish research field station where we are the R and D. We also work with first nations, helping them learn and understand. We have a whole program up and down the coast, training managers in first nations communities in shellfish, helping them with R and D as well as the little shellfish farmers.
We are talking about across the country. We're just starting conversations now with other small regional universities that have large aboriginal populations. I'm getting into conversation, for example, right now with Nipissing University, and Cape Breton University, etc. So there is a discussion, but there is not a concerted, well-organized discussion at this point.