It wouldn't replace the political dialogue that can help pave the way for important collaborations. When you get down another level, what often happens, because we have such a rich research ecosystem, is this: If you go to an international meeting, you'll have 12 Canadians on one side and maybe two or three people on the other side. Again, we've organically developed this great research ecosystem. However, when you want to speak as a collective, it's a little harder to do. Part of what this would do is enable a single-window, coherent voice on those larger-scale research initiatives.
There would still be a role at the political level for paving the way for some of that. However, the idea is to bring more focus to those initiatives at the research level.