Our system is based on quality assurance and peer review. While it is true that we can put out specific calls in strategic areas, for centres or even for networks of centres of excellence, we leave it to the community to come together and to formulate their own ideas, and to come forward with the best possible ideas, and they compete. We insist on competition and we disfavour programs or projects that are funded outside our suite of programs, because that gives us quality assurance. It gives our industrial partners quality assurance and validates the projects. We intend to continue the calls for CECRs, centres of excellence for commercialization and research, in the future, depending on our budget allotments, but we will not target those areas necessarily.
