Thank you, Mr. Hanley.
Of course, we know research is absolutely fundamental to health transformation. It is the pathway to understanding how we deal with the problems that face us in a complicated world. There isn't a health system that isn't facing these challenges in the world.
I was so happy—as I know you were, Mr. Hanley—that in budget 2024 we responded to the Bouchard report's recommendations to make sure that we have the appropriate supports for postgraduate and graduate students be able to study here and to be able to call Canada home for the research they do.
Research leads to miracles. It is very much the responsibility of.... It really is thanks to research that we have been able to make the kind of progress we have. I'll just give you one example. We talked earlier about diabetes. Canada is perhaps three to five years away from being the country that solves type 1 diabetes, and it is because of the extraordinary researchers in this country. Making sure that the next generation of researchers has the support they need is critical. Money that was in the supplementary estimates to further those goals is critical, not just to keep researchers here so that the science is here and the jobs are here, but also so that the solutions of tomorrow that end the diseases of today are driven and done here in Canada.