I think the tri-council members are disciplinary in nature, so they fund researchers in those areas of discipline. There's nothing wrong with that, as long as something comes out of that research, that somebody, somewhere is thinking, “Okay, so how are we going to use this? How are we going to make that pragmatic?”
I would argue that's what polytechnics and colleges are already doing. If there is going to be the creation of this additional bureaucracy, as you say, I would like to see that bureaucracy tasked with how we can make the research that is falling out of the tri-council pragmatic and how we can apply that knowledge to real problems across the country. I would suggest that if it doesn't do that, then it really is a waste of time and money.