It's such a great question. Thank you.
Dalhousie is a great example of a university that is really embedded in its region, while at the same time contributing globally. Dalhousie's focus on oceans, for example, and the ocean's role in climate change—particularly in the transforming climate action project that you mentioned, working with other universities, such as Université du Québec à Rimouski, Laval, Memorial, and so on—shows a wonderful example of how federal funding, in that case the $154 million for that project and all the partners, is then leveraged into almost $400 million.
Earlier we were talking about the possibility of endowments and other sorts of funding and so on. What we find is that these projects can only work successfully in a very entrepreneurial way, by finding these other sources of funding. As you know, for the large, research-intensive universities, the research support fund, which helps out in terms of what we used to call the overhead cost of research, is structured so that it leaves the major universities with having significant gaps to fill—and they do that. Dalhousie, I think, has been a great example of how they really do work as a catalyst, as a leader, bringing in other partners, really affecting the region, but also doing it in a way that globally is going to have a huge positive impact on climate change—new technologies in terms of ocean carbon capture and new ways of helping coastal communities threatened by climate change.
I think Dalhousie is just a wonderful example, and frankly I think it should be celebrated.