On that specific issue I should comment on the Council of Canadian Academies, because there has been a long-standing recognition in Canada that we needed an organization that was capable of providing the government with the science base from which it could make its decisions. This is an organization that is perhaps similar to the National Academy of Sciences in the United States, or the Académie des sciences in France.
The fact of the matter is that we didn't have the Council of Canadian Academies or the Canadian Academies of Science, yet government had to make decisions every day that really required a consideration of science. How do you do that if you don't have an organization that can periodically and systematically do an assessment of the science involved in one of these issues and provide it to government?