Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses.
I'm going to start off my questions with Dr. Young. It's great to see you again.
There's tremendous work going on with the Canadian Brain Research Strategy. It's doing some work that's very similar to what the capstone is doing in terms of bringing researchers together from across Canada, but the capstone would go a little deeper into other areas.
I was at a lab at the University of Guelph this morning that was studying fish. They've just received some federal funding, $1.5 million over two and a half years, to look at Pacific salmon and the effects of bitumen on salmon. Also, while I was in the lab, I saw them looking at the brains of deepwater fish that had a way of regenerating themselves when they were damaged, and taking the research from these deepwater fish and converting it into some stem cell research that could possibly find its way into medical applications.
We don't know where some of the research goes, but going from fish to humans, or looking at the cultural effects of the loss of salmon on the indigenous communities, could you talk about the interrelationships that could be bridged through the capstone?