I'll keep my comments brief.
I would comment on a couple of pieces. As I mentioned in my comments with respect to infrastructure, it would be helpful to think about how we can ensure that we have optimized use of shared infrastructure.
An example is the plant growth facility I spoke of. We have different institutions all co-located here on the University of Saskatchewan campus with shared needs. The cost of those shared needs exceeds what any one of us could realistically achieve on our own, but in order for us to maintain or regain our status as global leaders in crop development and in some of the genomic aspects that I was speaking about earlier, it's really urgent for us to put this together.
We're looking to make it easier for us to be able to collaborate across those boundaries, because we are finding that the difference in terms of expectations or how we approach the governance structures is one of the big challenges, but also a real opportunity.
When we think about the funding timelines, for example, that university grants typically operate on versus some of the opportunities that might be available through partnership with some of our federal agencies, there is real opportunity there for us to build on that and to create really powerful partnerships. However, we do need to think about how we break that down, because some of those silos that Dr. Charbonneau referred to are a function of those barriers that were perhaps put in place for security reasons, or perceived security reasons, but have now served as a barrier to collaboration as well.