Thank you very much for the question.
As my colleague Janet Walden has said, this commitment to discovery research is a very important one. It's always been very difficult to make a distinction between discovery and applied research. For example, in astronomy they have some of the most challenging areas of development in handling massive amounts of data, and companies like IBM and Cisco are as interested in what's happening with astronomy as people who are interested in the stars.
This provides the granting council with the ability to be flexible in what's supported with a view to the future as well as doing the applied research, which is very important. As I mentioned, it's really exciting to see the Canada first research excellence fund. It is a challenge to our universities and colleges to be really creative and to think about how they can marshal resources around a research question, or around what's available in an area to take on a bigger question and achieve a more ambitious target than they would otherwise be able to do.
Additional support has been provided to keep Canada's high-energy physics lab, TRIUMF in Vancouver, going for another five years. They played a critical role in the discovery of the Higgs boson. This is a very exciting time for us working in science and technology in the federal government, and we're looking forward to implementing the decisions that were announced in budget 2014.