Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Hinton, it's a pleasure to have you back as a witness.
I listened to your recommendations carefully. You would like to see greater transparency and a better relationship with universities to increase confidence, security, dialogue and collaboration. You also talked about ways to protect the knowledge economy within the education sector in order to benefit from it.
You raised a very important point: leadership, in other words, bringing the experts together to establish best practices, better ways of doing things and, above all, clear guidelines around national security and research.
Back in February, the federal government announced that it was going to ask universities to comply with a list of institutions that could no longer receive funding and with which they could no longer collaborate. The announcement was made in February. My fellow members and I asked witnesses about this during the committee's last study. It's October, and still no list.
I'd like to hear your views on that, since you're a university professor. Does that undermine collaborative projects you're planning in the university sector?