I think maybe it's just about the history of the creation of the tri-councils and the division of the science that then falls under the mandates of those tri-councils. That's how we've created these silos of social sciences and humanities, natural sciences, and then the health research, CIHR. The siloing of those into those funding structures has benefited the community in the way that we can consolidate different funding through those processes, but it has created gaps where you can't provide funding. As well, interdisciplinary research might combine multiple domains.
That's where I see the strengths of the capstone coming. You can have the interdisciplinary aspect ingrained right into the mandate, including the mission-driven research.
It's not to say that we don't do applied research in a lot of these tri-agencies, but I think that the distinction is important: Applied research definitely does happen in the tri-agencies, but mission-driven research is where you have this intention, where you have a vision for what the mission should be for Canada.