Thank you, Mr. Chair. You meant the Bloc, then the NDP.
I'm going to build on what Mr. Gaffield said about the importance of federal government leadership.
Last February, the federal government said that grant applications for research carried out in partnership with an institution representing a risk to national security would henceforth be refused. Last May, in an article in the Journal de Montréal, the Quebec government's Minister of Higher Education, Pascale Déry, said she was awaiting “clear directives” from the federal government, and declared, “I myself made representations to Minister Champagne. I haven't had an answer on that score, and I'm still waiting for one.” Cabinet then said it was in the process of drawing up a list of risky foreign research institutions. So it's been almost a year since it was announced that there would be no funding, but there's still no clarification.
Mr. Landon, I'd like you to clarify something for us. You represent the 97 universities in Canada. What do you expect from the federal government regarding the missing guidelines for national security in relation to research?