Last week, when I asked Dr. Prigent if his appointment could lead CIHR to adopt a policy that would favour the short term over the long term, to the detriment of basic research, he was very clear that this was not his philosophy or how he viewed his mandate.
Yourself, since you carry out daily basic research or social research whose direct and immediate benefits are more or less tangible, do you see him as a threat to the type of more basic research that you carry out?