Let me say that we did not do that in a detailed way. We had six months, literally, from the time we were first convened until we last met. So we had to get very focused, early on, on the main themes that we felt we had to address. But what we did address, because we were asked as well to talk about the processes to assure, or to encourage if not assure, was commercialization.
One of the things that have marked the federal support system is that it tends to be organized in vertical silos. You start with NSERC—basic research, universities. Then you move to NRC, the PILP and IRAP programs, and you start to attempt some demonstrations. Then you start looking for a little private money and fall into a ditch usually. Then if you've been able to demonstrate something in the laboratory, you might get as far as to put together a proposal that SDTC, Sustainable Development Technology Canada, will help fund to do a demonstration. But you have to have brought together a group of people, including those who have the ability and are interested in commercializing it, taking it right into the market.
So you have to sing one song to NSERC, and then you have to develop new music for NRC, and on it goes. What we're saying is, if a technology is a priority, ensure that the support is available in that priority area, from beginning to end, from a single source. We're not saying to do everything that way. We need to cast the net broadly. But if you have a priority, restructure this so that in fact the control of the people making the decisions follows right along with the natural processes that go from the science to commercial application.