Thanks very much.
Thanks for your presentation.
I have two questions, and they're completely different.
The first question concerns the jobs that have been created in the country. The government will say that they've created 600,000 jobs. Now, one thing we know is that 80% of those jobs have been created in three provinces in the country—Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador—and they've been created around the resources.
Having been in Fort McMurray back in the 1970s, I know that NSERC has considerably developed the extraction, the processing, the refining, and all those processes over the years, and it's much more environmentally friendly, much more efficient, and much more cost-effective. All those aspects have evolved over the last number of years. NSERC has had a big part to play in that. They've worked closely with the University of Alberta, and so there's cutting-edge technology that's been developed over there.
It seems in those areas that it's industry and academia, and then NSERC comes in and plays its role. How does that evolve? Do you think you've been as successful in sustainable energy sectors—in wind, in tidal energy, those types of sectors? Have you been as successful, just anecdotally? My thought is that maybe you're not as successful, so why would that be? Is there not yet an industry advocating certain research, and what might it be? Could you just share with me your views on that?