There's really no timetable. We continue to work; programs evolve on their own. As you well know, the panel's report from Mr. Tom Jenkins on research and development in Canada has given the government a number of opportunities to improve how we incent businesses to do more research and development. As those programs evolve, metrics—again, as specific as we can make them—will be developed.
That said, I still want to remind Mr. Harris, if I can, that Canada is recognized as already having some of the highest metrics. Job numbers are the big thing that everybody wants to hear about: how many jobs? As you've heard many times, we have created more jobs, have more people working now, than we had pre-recession. We have the strongest economic growth of some of the industrialized nations. This is all good news.
But we have had areas and opportunities in which we could measure other things besides jobs. Those are the desires of our organization to see whether our ability to diversify a community's economy has actually worked. There will be a few more years of data collection before we start to analyze that data with the metrics that we develop.
I would like to say, too, if I can just quickly, on the isotope issue, that Canada is investing very heavily in next-generation isotopes for medical diagnostics and treatment. Funding for that has been in every budget, Mr. Harris, that your party has voted against. The next time we bring a budget forward that has the opportunity to improve the health of Canadians, you might want to vote for it.