Thank you.
I want to follow up with Mr. George with respect to research.
The AUCC has said to focus really on funding for granting councils and indirect costs of research. Your submission is more focused on commercialization, and I appreciate that angle. But if you look at research, it seems to me, we fund infrastructures through CFI and through the KIP program in the stimulus package, human resources through granting councils and the Canada research chairs. Then there's the whole commercialization aspect. At the University of Alberta, we have TEC Edmonton.
But it seems as though the more you fund research, the more you need to fund research. You fund research and you have a Canada research chair. For example, U of A is trying to bring someone up from California. You bring that person up, then you have to create the infrastructure around them. Then more people come to the university, who then need more CIHR grants and other granting programs. Then they attract more people, who then need more facilities, and then need more funding for commercialization.
I guess the concern is that it's a sort of never-ending ask. And are we always underfunding one area? The concern now seems to be that we're underfunding the human resource side. But if funding is given to the granting councils, next year are the G13 going to come to the finance committee saying, now you're underfunding on the infrastructure side? And so you have to address that angle. Then two years from now it will be human resources.
How do we find the right proportion among these different areas in a longer, stable program?