It's difficult for me to comment. I can comment on McMaster, Mr. Marston, because I had the pleasure of spending ten wonderful years at that university as a faculty member, and I had the opportunity to also launch a private business that is still operating in downtown Hamilton.
It's difficult for me to comment on the policy side of what you're referring to, obviously. Trying to identify sources of funding in order to support an initiative like the one you've described is obviously interesting. Whatever we can do to foster this rapprochement between the private sector and the discovery and the knowledge creation will serve Canadians very well in the future. It might be seen as a cost right now; it might be delaying some current revenues, but it should pay off. And it will pay off in the future. We're seeing it in all of our agencies right now in terms of the impact of the investments that have been made over the last 10 or 12 years, and the systematic continued investments in research and development that have been made at the granting councils and at the Canada Foundation for Innovation. They are now starting to pay off.
Canada is only very recently in the research and development game; it's only in the last 12, 13, or 14 years. Now is the time to sustain the investment so that Canadians can reap the benefits in the future.