I would highlight that the NRC has maintained a very strong program of student recruitment, in the neighbourhood of 500 students every year, and we will continue to meet that goal even when we're making changes to our operating budget. We are sensitive that the organization can't be cut off from the talent pipeline. We need to continue to renew the workforce.
Just as an example, we were talking earlier about AI. The way we're achieving the progress that we're achieving at the council is by hiring students to come in and work on AI projects, because they come in with the skills we need. The way you make progress in AI is by hiring younger people who are actually familiar with it and comfortable with it. They're learning this. They're very enthused. They're happy to join an organization like ours, which offers so many dynamic opportunities.
That's actually what we've done. We've hired students to work on a whole range of summer projects on AI advancements that we can adopt and that can become actual systems at the NRC.
This is just one example, and we do that quite intentionally. Having students, co-ops and post-doctoral fellows come to join the NRC is a very important part of our talent plan. We're very heartened, because there are a lot of really smart, capable people in the country. It makes our job challenging, because we have to select the best among them to join the NRC.