Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have a question now for Mr. Miller.
I must admit that I'm particularly sensitive to what you said, since I come from the social sciences milieu. I agree entirely that we cannot have good public policy if we do not have good research on the labour market, immigration, workforce skills, and so on.
Recently, I was in Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean. I met with some people from a group called Agrinova, which does research in agricultural innovation. Farms and small businesses ask the government to invest in this sector. However, these people told us that despite what we hear in official speeches, our country invests three to four times less than Japan, South Korea and Sweden in agricultural innovation.
In your presentation, you said that Canada was beginning to lag behind. Do you have any comparative international data showing that our country does not do enough social sciences and humanities research to improve our understanding of Canadian society?