One of the driving features of everything we do at the Canadian Space Agency is doing is to try to align it with the science and technology strategy.
If you look at all the exploration work we're involved in with respect to robotics, we are the ones who are putting the station together, as Koichi said, but it's the spinoff from that, and the excitement from it, that make us a player at the table internationally. I think that contributes to nation building. It inspires the next generation to go into science and technology, so in addition to the role we play on the international space station, we also have a major part in contributing to the next generation.
That's just on the robotics side. If you go to the utilization of the space station, we are working in five or six different areas within science, so we're aligned with the other government departments that are involved. For example, they mentioned the project at York University, which is a neurological project. In some cases these projects have support from Health Canada. Maybe there is support from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, as you heard about with the willow trees that are being grown there to try to understand the growth of reaction wood. We have a myriad of important experiments.
In Health Canada there are areas that are identified as important, areas where we can make a contribution. Those areas are the cardiovascular system, the neurological system, and the immune system. Across 100 shuttle flights, I think there have been 70 flights that had cancer experiments on them, and that's because cells interact differently once they're in zero gravity.
The answer is that we try to align everything so that it meets criteria that maps into the S and T strategy.