I know, from a long history of living in rural communities, that often rural and remote communities have booms and busts. It's always up and down, and that's very stressful on the communities, and it's frustrating, because a lot of money during the boom is made in the communities and it leaves the communities to subsidize other parts of Canada, and then when it's bust time, often the resources aren't there to help us move through it.
In the work you're demonstrating in terms of economic development and working with different industries to find solutions that make sense within the area, what kind of investment or support would be more beneficial to actually see that expand so we can see a diversification of the economy?
To add another thought to that, one of the things I've heard a lot of researchers tell me is that in Canada we do a lot of great work at the beginning, but we don't take the next step. Often, other countries take our research, do the next steps and then become the specialists who can create opportunities to make money in their own country, and then we're buying what we started in the first place.
I'm wondering if any of that makes sense, and if you see opportunities where funding might actually result in that.