I'd begin with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, which Alan has served with such distinction for 10 years. I had the enormous privilege of being chair of that in earlier days. That was a remarkable vision of Fraser Mustard, mainly—with help from people like John Evans—to identify some of those areas that were areas of great need, dependent upon interdisciplinary approaches. They were unusual approaches, not conventional approaches. It reached out beyond Canada's borders to bring the best in the world to be on the advisory committees and so on, do some of the work and be part of the collaboration.
If I were to list the things where Canada has the greatest opportunity, then I'd begin by asking Alan. How did you develop your priorities for the programs that you struck over the 10 years that you were there, Alan? Where are you today and what do you see in the future?
Artificial intelligence is a very good example. When Geoff Hinton was working in this area 25 years ago, it was not funded by the granting agencies because it was considered too wild. Mimicking the human brain, how on earth can you do that? Thanks to the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, which funded him early on because it saw promise in this very unconventional research, it's become extremely important worldwide. Guess what. As we've just indicated, Canada's one of the two or three great leaders in that sphere.