Thank you very much. I appreciate the question.
Again, I'm on the board of Universities Canada, as well as a former board member of Mitacs, so I really support that. I was also part of the submission from the U15.
Our submissions from both Universities Canada and U15 actually are synonymous with many of the points that Dr. Simmons and also Dr. Broadbent made about the particular quantum area. We are a nation that needs to be able not only to support talent development, but also to be able to attract talent from outside the country, to nurture that talent. An additional piece is not to lose that talent. My university has lost some amazing investigators to Europe and to the U.S. in the quantum area in particular, which we would really like to retain here.
Canada has I think a very robust ecosystem for investing in people, and I would encourage the federal government to ramp up that investment, because talent really is our future. Whether it be in quantum or in other areas, it really is about talent. We have tremendous programs in the country to support undergraduate students. We also I think need a bigger investment in graduate students who are going to come here from around the world, work with us and, hopefully, as Dr. Simmons said, stay and provide contributions to the Canadian economy and the future growth.
It is about talent, making it easy for people to come, making it easy for people to stay, and making it easy to nurture the people we have. That, in essence, is supporting the Universities Canada and the U15 documentation on the submission for this budget.