Thank you.
The market for ideas is global. That's the competitive market for ideas. Canada is really blessed with having a large amount of talent across the country that has developed at CEGEPs, polytechnics, colleges and universities that are building their abilities to create those ideas.
The capstone organization, I think, will be a great opportunity to identify some of those big, very difficult problems that Canada needs to solve to improve the quality of life and productivity. Very often, the solution to those problems requires contributions from different disciplines from people who have been trained differently.
One of the common characteristics of people who have been trained in Canada in this way is that they're critical thinkers. Again, the ideas are competitive on the global stage. They're competing against other ideas. Having that base of independent thought, the ability to come up with an idea that looks like it's out in left field—or right field, depending on the political party—is essential to being able to test that idea and to have it move forward in that global landscape.
We need that broad generation of critical thinkers, the broad generation of people who are willing to commit to respectful debate across the ideas. Political interference precludes some of that because some voices are then not heard as loudly as other voices. I think we need all voices at the table in order to move forward.