Thank you for the question, Greg.
As you are well aware, these are important issues for Universities Canada. What I see as particularly useful investments by the federal government have been in university-industry partnerships and alliances. I include colleges when I say that. The power we have when our faculty and our staff and our students are interacting with companies such as Jim's, companies that are really focused on being globally competitive, is a very powerful alliance.
When our students are acquiring the experiential learning, the work-integrated learning, they become better students. They understand the needs of industry better. Our faculty members understand the needs of industry, and we're getting better and better at this.
In particular, this investment at that interface between the universities and colleges and our industries is making us much more receptive. We better understand the needs of business, although it's not always easy. There are different cultures and different ideas of what amounts to a deadline.
In an nutshell, I would also want to suggest that programs like Mitacs, which the federal government has invested significant funding in recently, as well as new investments in the National Research Council and its IRAP program, are really good programs. They are functioning very well.
I would suggest to you that scaling them up would allow us to get after the kinds of opportunities that we have much faster. That would be my argument.