Thank you very much.
I come from Waterloo, so I really have an ingrained appreciation for R and D and what it means.
Given the distractions in the United States right now, we really have an opportunity to assemble a critical mass of scientists and researchers to look at Canada. In the example of my community, the Perimeter Institute and the Institute for Quantum Computing really have started to get this critical mass of the best and the brightest in the world coming into those disciplines. I think it's important that we recognize it, because it's an opportunity. Once you have a new administration in the United States they will be distracted for a couple of years, but they'll be on it.
One of the things I was somewhat disturbed by was that at the point in time we had Dr. Arthur Carty as the science adviser to the Prime Minister, it really gave an opportunity to get the whole issue of science right in the centre of government. I think that's incredibly critical.
So I wonder if you could comment on those two points: the critical mass, and having someone right in the centre of government as far as science goes and what Canada can do.