Thank you for that. I appreciate that.
I understand the importance of having those research institutions support a lot of our health professionals with getting placements in hospital settings. UHN in downtown Toronto is particularly known for that with the four hospitals. Anyway, I won't get into that.
I want to pivot to a question about applied research. We have had some of the colleges and polytechnics here. In fact, one of the local institutions in my riding, Ontario Tech, has been here. It is a university, but it operates particularly in STEM areas where a lot of the research is applied.
There were some witnesses who suggested that the tri-council should be allocating a larger portion of research dollars to applied research, rather than to academic research, and that colleges should be made eligible for those funds as well.
I wonder how both witnesses today, Ms. Aiken and Ms. McMartin, feel about that.