Thank you for the question, Ms. Gladu.
I think it starts really with a foundation and having a strong foundational ecosystem. That includes, certainly, strong support for education in the K-12 system, which I know is not the purview of this committee, including opportunities through things like Let's Talk Science to engage young people from a diverse set of backgrounds in science and research. Then, of course, we have undergraduate education. We have college education. Then we really do need to see support in labs through fundamental kinds of research support more broadly.
From there, students get the opportunities to build more specific skill sets. That's really where we come in. We work with students, as I said, from a variety of backgrounds. Genomics involves a range of skills, backgrounds and technologies, everything from computer science to engineering to all the social sciences I talked about. Really, a lot of people come in from different places, but you also have a lot of needs. We certainly found during the COVID pandemic that a lot of our shortages were in areas involving medical technicians, for instance. Therefore, we do need a broad cross-sectoral focus that includes higher education in the colleges, universities and advanced research labs right across the country. Then we need to target initiatives such as those we do, for instance, at Genome Canada.