Thank you
I was just saying we talk about genetic engineering, let's talk about genomic engineering. You're creating whole new human beings out of ones who are not deemed to be healthy enough. It's science fiction stuff.
Everything you're talking about is really important. The question is, where do we go from here in Canada? Dr. Edwards has talked about and set up this group that we're talking about, but I believe that Canada can do more, as a federal government, in terms of helping with that private-public academic partnership after the tripartite thing, in which we take academia working with not just pharma but with all parts of industry to be able to create the sort of commercialization of a product or of something new. I know when this was done about six or eight years ago the total amount that was there, private and public contributions, became about $10 billion. If you wanted to build this again, do you think this is enough to really kick-start a major trend in Canada of getting back up to where it used to be in terms of R and D in the G-8, which was number one? Now we've fallen to number seven again.
The point is, how do we move forward with that? What are the real implementation steps? Let us imagine you were the government. Take a risk here. What would you do?