Thank you for that.
I would agree with you. Sitting at home when COVID hit, just like most people were sitting in their homes, I was a provincial politician at the time. There were a lot of, not discussions, but phone calls or emails with constituents at the time. Certainly, from reading social media, and some papers that were still left at that time, there was the need for Canada to do more, to do better or to have its own research labs, and we wondered how this could happen and what we could ensure for the next time.
When we move forward a couple of years later, when the pandemic was over and when everybody was out of their homes and their basements, and away from their screens and so on, it seems to me that the conversation then shifted quite a bit. There were still people thinking that, but others were sort of a bit cynical about research, and the discussion, for many, also just shifted.
How would you help us address some of that? Would you say there is any value, or what would be the value in research projects that might contribute more broadly to this type of research?