Thank you, Madam Chair.
I, too, want to just voice my concerns around the minister's not appearing this fall yet. I think we made ourselves fairly clear about that. It is incredibly frustrating.
However, I would note that Mr. Vats has answered a bunch of the questions that we were wondering about. I had a number of questions prepared here just around whether we would be melding the tri-councils into the new capstone association. I think you referred to the fact that you will be. There will be a pulling together of that.
We've also noted a number of studies that are having money sent abroad to the United States and to other countries. We heard from witnesses who talked about how the Americans are putting crazy amounts of money into research.
How do you think the capstone will manage the more targeted funding for research? Looking around the world and seeing what is in Canada's interests, how do we focus Canadians to get these research dollars...to maximize Canada's place in the world, I suppose?