Well, I did address the national quantum strategy in my introduction. I mentioned that being strategic about the use of these funds was important and that making choices is something we have to do. We cannot excel in everything quantum; at some point choices will have to be made. At the moment, the investments through NSERC are tagged “quantum”, but NSERC does not make any strategic choices. This is good. It will continue to allow researchers to explore different avenues.
That said, I believe now that making strategic investments that bring together Canada and Canadian researchers around common goals would be a great way to go forward. I think that, if we can define community-based goals around which we can attract enough interest in Canadian researchers, we would have a chance to make research have a large impact.