Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank the witnesses for being here today.
Mr. McCulloch, I was quite pleased by and interested in some of your comments when you were saying the government is finally starting to work with community colleges as far as some of the research dollars are concerned. I come from Oshawa, where GM is undergoing some challenges right now. Many of my constituents have phoned me in the last few weeks saying, you know, when the Government of Canada invests my tax dollars, we want to make sure that they stabilize jobs. It relates to the economic spinoffs. If someone's having a hard time getting a job, they're not going to be paying taxes, etc., to fund the science.
I was wondering, would you say there's a bias with the Government of Canada, or has there been one in the past, with regard to university versus colleges--for investments or big science--versus applied sciences?