Thank you very much.
There are a number of things I have in listening to the discussions.
The first one is that when we talk about different charitable groups—I believe Mr. Longfield mentioned it as well with his observations about charities—you can have dollars that go into research that are against the national interests. We've seen that with charities and different groups that have gone after our oil and gas industries. We've seen that same type of thing happening in agriculture.
There are great ideas for setting this up. However, you have to make sure that the focus is in Canada's national interest. I think that's something we may want to keep in mind, as politicians who have to come up with policies.
Mr. Beney, you spoke about getting education out there so people understand how they can look at intellectual property and innovation—getting that literacy there. The suggestion was that we should have university people talking about this. I submit that it should be done a lot earlier than that.
I was a high school math and physics teacher. When I was teaching my calculus classes, I had professors come from universities. They'd say, “Well, your kids are going to know all they need as far as first-year calculus is concerned. What they aren't going to know is how to work together. Your classes should be set up in a collaborative way so that they're working on projects.” I think it has to start a lot earlier.
As you are talking to universities or trying to push this as far as universities are concerned, I'm wondering if you have some strategies that might enhance that.