The history of Canada demonstrates that federal leadership is absolutely essential in terms of signals that we're going to build a better country with respect to research and innovation. We all have to look to the federal government's leadership on this. That's how we went from being an intellectual colony as late as the 1950s and 1960s to moving onto the world stage. That was through federal leadership.
I think the provinces are looking for signals from the federal government about the importance of this. I would say that the more signals.... If the government can say, “This is a national priority for our country”, I think we can hope for better funding at the provincial level.