Research across all domains is sort of a global endeavour, and researchers collaborate beyond geographic boundaries as they attempt to answer very complicated questions. That is why I mentioned that the way we consider research excellence needs to be broad, and it needs to be tailored and evolving. It changes as science does and as society does.
I'm really pleased in the case of health, when we think about the populations that health research and clinical research in particular are meant to serve, that clinical trials and other types of research think about the people we want to have as benefactors and about the impacts we want to have. That's really important.
I think the same principles apply to the kinds of things we have talked about already at this meeting. We need to think about ethics. We need to think about integrity. Openness has come through as being a very important theme today. It's important for people to understand that what they're doing, and their results, will be open and public so that these can be scrutinized and can be shared, and people can build on what's being learned.
We also need to make sure that the knowledge is being translated. This was mentioned by some of my fellow presenters today. There is the need to move ideas through to commercialize changes that we then put into the health care system or that are taken by companies, and there is a need for Canadians to get access to these things in a timely and affordable way.
I hope that answers your question.