Thank you.
Thank you both for being with us today.
I also want to welcome the Liber Ero fellows. They're in the middle of the back over there. These are Canada's finest conservation scientists, post-doctoral fellows who are here in Ottawa to see how policy is made and things like that, so I wanted to welcome them. I also see other student groups here as well. This is what we're here for: to talk about the future of science in Canada, so we are hopefully doing a good job for them.
I have so many questions. I'm going to start off with Mr. Vats.
Some of the concerns I've read about in the “what we heard” documents and other briefs are concerns about, in this period of change, what that will look like. They don't want things to go sideways. There's always the consideration of existing budgets.
First of all, let's talk about that. Will the existing budgets for the tri-councils remain intact, and will anything new that capstone might want to fund be on top of that? How is that going to work?