Thank you very much for that question. Yes, I think there has been increased attention across the Government of Canada, not only in this policy area, but to the importance of citizen engagement in general. I think this reflects a sense that citizens do have something to say even on complex issues, that they live in a world where these technologies and scientific developments are going to be rolled out. They have intimate experience with what science and technology means in their everyday lives. They bring a perspective to the table that I think is distinct from the perspective that scientific experts bring to the table or that stakeholders, especially industrial stakeholders, bring to the table.
All of that, I think, has to form a kind of complex quilt of advice to government, because I think if everyday citizens' voices are excluded from or not sought in ways that are constructive and under conditions that produce the best of what citizens are capable of in terms of advice on these issues, then governments are going to be faced with difficult choices to make on questions of funding, on questions of regulation, on questions of priorities in terms of addressing pressing scientific and technological issues, and they're going to have--