Thank you very much for your question, which goes to the heart of our argument.
We strongly support investments in universities. We believe in discovery research, but indeed there is a more applied side of research, in which our institutions have developed a very great success. There's really very little investment there. There is a new program, as I mentioned, that will support some work in one in five or one in six of our institutions. We think that should be ramped up.
We also think that while we have access to a variety of federal funding sources, the criteria clearly are weighted in favour of universities. I think our colleagues from the Government of Canada have pretty well underlined that. We're not against that; it's just that there's this whole important component of ties with industry and commercialization that we're almost completely neglecting. It's a huge oversight on the part of the Government of Canada.
My job is to persuade you that there's another side of the coin that is very important to Canada's future economic prospects.