Thank you very much.
I'll start with Dr. Bouchard.
In your testimony, you talked about CUSMA, the importance of being a partner, what the States is looking for in other trading partners and how Canada is being strategic with its research. I couldn't agree more. What we spend our research dollars on tells our story to the world. We have to make sure that we're investing in things that are practical and real. Some can be foundationally based, driving toward a goal, and then there's other research that gets done in Canada.
In the context of how you think the CUSMA renegotiation goes and how we're doing strategic investments and research, we have, from McMaster University, the project “Superheroes, sacrifice, and salvation: themes of redemption in the modern comic book”. That was for $17,500. This is what we are strategically investing in in Canada.
Meanwhile, we have other investments. It shouldn't be comical, but these are comic book investments we've made.
Another one we've invested in is “Batman vs Superman: visions of the American cityscape in contemporary graphic novels”. We spent $17,000 on that. This is from the University of British Columbia.
Mind you, earlier this year, in the Vancouver Sun there was an article entitled, “B.C. drug 'super labs' producing fentanyl for here and abroad—but charging suspects proving elusive”. That was that reported in the Vancouver Sun on October 21.
We're investing in research looking at Batman versus Superman for $17,000, when dollars could be put into research on, hopefully, crime reduction. That would be a strategic investment for our country, but that's not taking place.
This is the last one, and then I'll get your comment on those three. “History is Magic: The Importance of History and Memory in Harry Potter”. That was for $17,500 as well, and that's at McMaster University.
You might have heard the story CBC reported, entitled, “Hamilton becomes latest Ontario city to declare state of emergency over homelessness, other crises”.
You have money going to study Harry Potter in a community that CBC has declared as being in a state of emergency because of homelessness. Don't you think, strategically, we could be investing in better projects?