Okay, thank you.
My understanding, as well, is that the large majority of grants are awarded based on merit and it's a competitive process. There are some that are allocations depending on the size of the university, or how many research chair positions you have, or the success, as you said, of past years. However, there are also a large number that are collaborative, or large awards of collaborative proposals, so many institutions do collaborate.
Ms. Vaugeois, I'm wondering if there are evaluation criteria—and I just don't know this myself—in the tri-council for collaboration. In other words, is collaboration encouraged in the awarding of those grants? In essence, if there's more collaboration, you're more likely to be successful.