One quick point I'd like to make is that these questions are pointing to the many pieces of this puzzle in terms of the post-secondary university research landscape and the different players in it. I think there are some encouraging signs. For example, we like to say at all the councils that excellence has no fixed address. We welcome proposals from across the country. One of the most interesting ones has been an initiative out of Yukon College related to the north and so on. I think there are some promising signs that we're beginning to connect across and think of better ways to help ourselves in a pan-Canadian sense, but as has been suggested, we also have a way to go.
On April 17th, 2008. See this statement in context.