I have a quick question for Ms. Day-Hamilton.
Obviously, I think most Canadians would agree that funding basic research is important and government does have a role to play there. You commented earlier, though, that researchers end up holding the patents themselves and can then decide to commercialize and whom to partner with, etc. We've seen recent cases in which taxpayers have funded new R and D in Bombardier for their C Series only to have Airbus swoop in, and now they're going to be building those planes down in Alabama.
That's a practical example of taxpayers subsidizing research only to find the economic benefits going somewhere else. I can see why recruiting must be very easy for Windsor, not just for the reputation but because researchers will get that intellectual property. I'm wondering what your answer would be to the critic who would say, “Why should my federal tax dollars be funding a group that will end up giving a private benefit to an individual?”