Thank you, Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for joining us this evening. Thank you for your presentations. They were very informative.
What I found over the last meeting, and going into today's meeting as well, is this notion of creating an ecosystem to be the foundation.
Dr. Charbonneau, you had mentioned that yourself.
Last session, we had the chief science officer make a presentation. She talked about the ecosystem foundation being critical to science, research and innovation moving forward. In fact, if you go, and look at documents such as the Naylor report from 2017, it talks about harmonization, collaboration, coordination of programs, agencies and administration. One of the other witnesses talked about this notion of a one-step process, so that dealing with the government isn't as difficult, isn't as cumbersome and isn't as bureaucratic, for example.
I'd like your comments on the research side, as well as from the universities and agency side, in dealing with government. What can be done better to facilitate the research that you're doing, so that the monies that we spend can be delivered into your hands quicker to do the work you're looking to do?
That could be to any one of you.