If I may intervene, I would like to add a few words to that response. You talked about a Canadian strategy. It is certainly interesting to see a bit of what goes on elsewhere. However, the provinces all have their own motives. Quebec's motives, for example, are accessibility and quality of teaching. We are certainly very interested in announcing that to the other provinces and seeing how we can work together to help ourselves become competitive on the world stage. However, we believe that each province should be able to invest its money itself. The same goes for the granting agencies when it comes to research. Granting funding with strings attached causes a lot of problems, as Mr. Grégoire pointed out. However, a Canada-wide consultation could be interesting, without imposing limits at the government.
On October 7th, 2009. See this statement in context.