Okay, there are two questions there, Dr. Bennett. Let me try to answer each of them.
Regarding the first one, about trainees, although in the main estimates it looks as though we're decreasing the amount of funding going to trainees, in fact the reality is otherwise. The reason it looks like that is that we're getting considerably more money through the Canadian graduate scholarship program, which is not shown in the main estimates for CIHR. Most of our students are actually funded through grants, so the more grants we fund, the more graduate students and post-doctoral fellows are actually being supported. Also, for our strategic training initiative, the same is true. In fact, we've actually more than doubled the number of trainees since we started, because we recognize the importance of young people to research and to the future.
Turning to the second part of your question, you're absolutely right: we're not able to fund a very large and growing number of outstanding and excellent grants. I commented on that the last time I was in front of this committee. I think there are a number of factors that are contributing to that. I think one is the tremendous expansion in the health research enterprise in this country that has taken place, and is still taking place, since we started. Virtually every major university and teaching hospital is building new facilities. Health research is unquestionably the most exciting area of science today, so young people are being attracted to it. Our broader mandate, relative to the old Medical Research Council, means that we are funding areas of research that the old MRC never would have funded before. So all of that together has meant that we're simply not able to fund a lot of really outstanding grants.