I can start on the first part of that response. As far as the actual technical collaboration is concerned, my colleagues can continue on that.
Under the intergovernmental geoscience accord that I mentioned started in 1996 and is renewed every five years, this is an accord between all of the provinces that have an interest or capacity in geological sciences. I don't know the number of other provinces that have an analog to our geological survey; my colleagues might have that information. But to address specifically what you're saying, it doesn't make sense if we all have limited resources to do our own thing; we should be pooling our activity addressing, okay, what are the priorities?
This group is governed by a national geological surveys committee. We are represented on that by our director general of the geological survey. This group reports directly to—I believe, David, there's a ministerial committee—energy and mines ministers. This group reports in. They develop work plans, they develop strategic directions, and they report in to this collective federal-provincial ministers committee.
That's at the higher level, but then on programs like GEM, we're like a targeted geoscience initiative, which we didn't present today but it's another aspect of our forward-thinking science.
David, do you want to pick up on that?