I will, absolutely.
Right now in Canada, for the vast majority of grants, once you get funding, there's essentially no monitoring until your final report. In other jurisdictions, there are grants officers assigned to funded projects to ensure that certain milestones are met and that overall outputs are delivered.
I'll use, from my area of expertise, the concept of open science. For instance, with clinical trials, we have federal policy to ensure that these trials are registered prospectively in an appropriate registry. We know that we're not doing that for metaresearch.
We have a policy and we need to monitor, when we do fund a trial, that those trials are indeed getting registered and that the results are subsequently being reported fully and completely. We know from an audit we've done that about half of the trials conducted in this country never see the light of day in terms of having their results reported in a public registry or even in a peer-reviewed publication. That suggests inefficiency. We want to make sure that there's monitoring to make sure that some of these basic science policies that we have—our science policies are quite strong and getting stronger—are being implemented on the ground.