I'm also very happy to see you. To be able to see colleagues in person is a great thing.
What I see are great opportunities to frame a new innovation and research ecosystem in Canada. You said it; DARPA in the United States, which you were referring to, is at the origin of the Internet and GPS. What we've been trying to think about in Canada is what in the ecosystem we can have as an organization that would support a moon shot type of approach to research.
If you look at the world today, we're faced with two existential challenges. One is COVID-19, and I think we've done great things to protect the health and safety of people. The other one is climate change. For me, we're going to create an agency or structure that would allow us to tackle some of these moon shot challenges of our generation. I think of climate change as one. Canada will be following in the footsteps of what we've seen there, but making it in a Canadian way, and one that will be integrated in the research and innovation ecosystem making sure we can support the work that's being done. I'll be creating a committee of advisers to make sure we do that in the best possible way.
I think it's an exciting moment, and I see a number of members of the committee nodding their heads. It's pretty exciting because this is at the forefront of the research and it's really thinking not about what's happening today, but how you position the country 20 to 30 years from now, taking immediate action with a long-term vision and really being at the forefront of the innovation and technology of the future. One that comes to mind is climate change.