Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank the witnesses for being here this morning.
I'd like to start by referring to one of Mr. Carrie's comments with regard to what we fund and what we don't fund. What we don't fund in a lot of cases are the operating costs. I find that in a lot of cases we are losing the provinces as partners. I've seen provincial ministers at openings of some of our nice big research facilities; they're very negative about them because they know they'll be stuck funding the operating costs over 10, 15, or 20 years.
Is this a fact or...? The provinces are a very important partner in any research project that we would do.