Regarding some of the big challenges that Canada has faced in terms of, for example, its productivity gap, getting to and identifying those solutions will require extra resources. Again, it's the research ecosystem that needs to be funded to come up with those solutions or test those new ideas and deliver the solutions that Canada needs. There has to be a clear mandate. We have to have clear structures and, again, we have to facilitate that integration, because the solutions primarily are probably going to come from across the tri-councils rather than from within a tri-council.
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