That is true. Thank you for raising that again.
The tri-agencies and the coordinating committee, in shifting the way that the CFREF is distributed, opened the door to smaller institutions in the last round of applications. The challenge now is I can see the door, but I can't quite open it.
As you've said, we don't necessarily have the administrative overheads, the staff or the ability to pull faculty out of their teaching workloads for a year, which is what it takes to pull these together. These are massive grants; Dr. Aiken in particular will know this. These take multiple international relationships, partnership building and really strategic thinking. I think all of the universities in Canada have that ability and that expertise, we just don't all have the capacity on our staff side to pull it together and make sense.
The challenge then, of course, is that when a lead institution receives those funds, they also receive significant overhead funding that provides that boost in project management and administrative supports that can lead to the next big grant. Our challenge has been that if we can't get on that hamster wheel it's impossible to become part of that cycle. Once you're in that cycle, it's easier. It's not easy, but it's easier to stay on that funding cycle. It's really hard to break in.