If I may, Mr. Chair, in a number of areas we have cooperated with Defence Research and Development Canada in reaching out to other research areas. We've looked at sleep loss. Years ago we did a lot of research on functioning in a sleep-deprived environment--which I'm sure you are used to. We've gone from that right through to medical research on the effects of trauma on the body, and these types of things. Clearly there is expertise in Canadian society, and in fact there is international medical research that can lead us much more quickly to solutions to problems that we have or foresee. It's in that vein that we frequently cooperate with others.
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