We are saying that, at a minimum, we have to set a threshold of 40% over the next few years, in order to be able to begin to improve the position of the federal government. It was only in 2001, relatively recently, that the federal government started to cover indirect research costs. The program was not made permanent until 2003. Since then, not much has changed.
On October 21st, 2010. See this statement in context.