I'm glad you brought that up. I've looked at the governance structure in the boards, and I hear from them that they're having problems getting private money. But the boards are all made up of academics. I'm just thinking that in terms of relationship-building and things like that, it would make sense to me to have some board members who actually have contacts in industry.
This kind of leads me to the next question. I wanted to talk to you about this. You are representing the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada. In your opening statement, you just talked about universities. In Oshawa I have Durham College and I have the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. I've heard that there is a real bias out there with university research versus college--in other words, theoretical research versus applied research.
As I said, even in your comments you talked all about universities; you really didn't talk about colleges. I'm wondering if there's an inherent bias in our funding of research. Is this a legitimate concern? Could you comment on that?