Today the government supports more than 11,000 health researchers in Canada. Our country of course has a lot of world renowned researchers.
There's a lot of competition for these grants, there's no question about it. But we think that by adding to our totals and creating....
There are a number of measures. There's a new Canada global excellence research chair fund, which I think will be helpful in a lot of these. We're putting more money into Genome Canada. I know we're funding stem cell research directly as well. There's a lot of very exciting world-class things that our researchers are involved in. The Government of Canada has certainly proven that we can be part of the solution.
We now have a new science and technology policy, which we call the Science and Technology Strategy. That strategy is important in ensuring the economy's future success.
It's not just for health care; it's for the economy as well. We will continue to support our researchers in health care as well as in many other areas.