Thank you.
I'm going to continue on with Dr. Dummitt about this idea of viewpoint diversity. I'm a biologist and an ecologist, and Dr. Kerr was talking about evolution, selection and all that.
As you've been talking, I've just been thinking about the idea of self-selection. When we're young and looking toward what we want to be in life, we make these choices about what interests us.
I guess I have one little anecdote about viewpoint diversity. In my previous life, I sat on a couple of very high-level boards where they needed a biologist, and everybody else was a billionaire or a CEO of a very large company. That was an environment where I kept my politics to my chest because I was clearly not in the majority. There was some very inflammatory language around that table about the NDP, for instance. I wasn't a member of the NDP at the time, but I supported it, and I kept that silent.
However, in my university world, when I was at UBC, the students who came and took my courses chose to study ecology, the environment or whatever. I can see that if you were going into social work, as well. Would you go into social work if...? Even if you had certain views to start, once you worked in that field with underprivileged and lower-income people and saw their struggles, I think you would be selecting for people who would have those political views. I'm just wondering if you could comment on that.