Yes, if I could augment what Howard said, I think we've been in an experimental mode in Canada for the last 10 to 15 years. When I think about the middle of the 1990s, when dramatic cuts were taken in the federal granting councils, in the provincial university systems, I think we've come an enormous way forward with the great, well-thought-out, creative investments in attracting and retaining great talent--the Canada research chairs, the Canada Foundation for Innovation--the transition of the Medical Research Council into the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and beginning to deal with the full research costs of research done through universities.
I'll just say our challenges are twofold. One is that we are still undereducating our populace. At the end of the day, whether you look at commercialization as one of the outcomes or you look at the health and societal benefits that come from having a strong research, science, and technology innovation culture, you can see that Canada is doing well at the community college level, but underperforming in preparing people at the masters and doctoral levels, particularly in science-related degrees. That's an area I think we can take on and prevail in.
The second is that when we look at inter-country comparisons--and this will be very important for our state of the nation report--we tend to look consistently at those that have been successful, which are, as Howard said, these small nation states. You could add Israel and Singapore to the list he gave. Both our challenge and our strength is that we have a huge geography with a relatively small population. It would fit into California readily. Tokyo has more people than the whole nation of Canada. This large geography has created strength in our capacity to network, strength in our ability to understand that it's only through harnessing the synergies of private sector and government investment and what our universities, research institutes, and educational institutions do that we will really have outstanding areas of impact. We need to think more strategically about that. In that regard, Australia is a great example. It doesn't have the U.S. south of its border, but it has some other comparisons with Canada.