Thank you very much. I'm humbled by your generous comments. It's a privilege to serve the country and to continue to serve science.
Disinformation and misinformation are issues that we all take very seriously. I think they're not only a threat to science; they're also a threat to democracy. They're a threat to how people carry out their lives. One thing for sure is that we can't always be on the reactive side and trying to correct what's out there that's not exact. We need to be proactive. I think transparency is our best ally.
Personally, I think we need to enhance scientific knowledge in the country so that people can tell by themselves what are appropriate sources of evidence and so on, but I think we need to involve the public in our deliberations.
I salute the report you put out in terms of citizen science. It's really with this in mind that we work, that we engage continuously with the public, but it's also that we take on specific projects.
Your colleague asked me if we take on topics ourselves. One of the topics that we have decided to report on, to produce, is called “Sky Canada”. It's about unidentified aerial phenomena. The reason we have taken this on is not because we believe one way or the other about extraterrestrials or anything like that; it's because we believe it's important that we have a scientific approach and transparency in how we assemble the information—