I collaborate with people outside Canada. The great thing nowadays, with Skype and FaceTime, is we have regular meetings to discuss projects and we actually apply for grants together. The U.S. allows people from outside the U.S. to apply for money. When we do joint grants, if we get something, then they can siphon off some for me to do research up here in Canada.
Research right now is global, scientists are starting to be global. There are a lot of scientists who have a laboratory in Saudi Arabia and then have a laboratory in the U.S.; this is the trend. In Saudi Arabia, it's the same for the way they're doing it. They're just dumping money to people and forcing people to move part time, but you don't leave your job. Science is really international. When we get results, we share with our collaborators in the U.S., or in China, or somewhere in Europe. It's not a silo. In the old days, I think it was a silo area. You had countries competing with each other, but nowadays everybody is working together, trying to figure out a way, from a health perspective, to try to improve health care. This is really at the end of the day what scientists are trying to do.