I feel very passionate about this. I think I have a real answer here.
The first is a question. What is the difference between Canada, Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq? Only one of these countries does not have a science minister, and that is Canada.
From the big picture perspective, one of the reasons we cannot integrate all our programs is that this country does not have a science minister. Pieces of R and D live in Industry Canada, in CIHR, in all these different agencies, but there is no one person looking at the big picture.
In the United States, our neighbour, the cabinet usually has somebody in science, and it's usually a Nobel laureate. We don't have that.