That will need to be a highly consultative process based on the needs of our country and the investments that we need in the type of areas we need. It cannot be determined in a top-down way. There needs to be participation of, for example, businesses. There needs to be participation of the academic institutions. There needs to be participation of groups such as the first nations, Métis and Inuit peoples of our country. It depends on what we are looking at, but there needs to be an in-built, robust, consultative framework that will allow us to identify the areas in which the Government of Canada is trying to invest.
For example, if we are looking at water security in our country as to how we use our water for demographic expansion, for our agri-food enterprise and for our mining and resource extraction, it will need to bring in all those relevant stakeholders for consultation and identification of the mission that the government or the capstone organization will then launch.
As has been said, we will need political independence within the development of those missions so that the academic and the scientific parts and the needs of society are put at the front end of the development of those initiatives.