Our principal comparator and the place where we lose academics to or gain them from is principally the United States. They've made much more significant investments in research than our country has.
Your government did, in 2009, commit $2 billion for a knowledge infrastructure project to which your colleague is responding, but at the same time it cut the funding for the granting councils by $147.9 million. We had instances of labs that received very valuable new equipment but had to close because they had no operational money. Part of the problem is just the failure to understand, I think on the government's part, what is necessary in order to have a successful research and scientific venture.