Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the witnesses for coming today.
I think everybody is in favour of exchange and international students and students coming forward, but I'm not sure how the free trade will have the effect of increasing students coming here and our students going over there. I haven't heard that.
Dr. Crago, you say research ties will strengthen. My question is, how? We're already doing it. Are you asking for the government to put more money into the Canada Foundation for Innovation? These things are not happening. They happen ad hoc and then they all of a sudden disappear. The comment that we're hearing is that we can't rely on those. We need that funding to be stabilized.
How are you going to be able to increase research and all those items? This is aside from the research. This is more like a finance committee pre-budget consultation type of request.