Thanks, Madam Chair.
I agree with Mr. Lobb that it's all very intimidating. I think I took grade 12 chemistry when we had grade 13 in Ontario, so it wasn't even that high a level.
During the course of our study, we've heard, Dr. Chan, about this frustration with the commercialization of research in Canada. I have to confess it's not clear to me how this stuff should progress from basic research to, I presume, health care delivery for Canadians with illnesses.
To both of you, could you take a few moments to spell out where basic research should end, and what the role is? There has been reference to industrial research. Is there a way to define or describe it? How does that move into actually delivering this technology into the health care system?