I won't speak to the TIPS programs, because there are a number of issues of programming that we do at the broader level.
For our agencies, in the one-third of our funds that we use strategically, the approaches that we're starting to use are network support strategies. You bring consortia or groups together to do exactly what you just said, for example, on issues of opioids, where the discovery of new forms of therapeutics might change our approach to addiction.
Pandemics are a problem for all of us. We're bringing together folks who are interested in all kinds of different aspects of that.
Regarding engineering and chemistry, I was at UBC the other day, and I was flabbergasted by what I saw. These chemists were exploring new ways of tagging molecules of designer drugs, and all the while they were testing their new approaches in rural B.C. They are making a transformation by thinking of how they work and by working with physicians and systems in a way to transform our future.
That type of stuff is happening everywhere in our country. Our approach to doing that is to basically light it up and build together consortia of interest, but it comes from our community. Most of what we do is bottom-up. If the ecosystem is ready to move in a direction, we incentivize it in all kinds of different ways. That can be through our projects or our network thinking, but we can't do it alone.
In health and health care, in a lot of what we do, the provinces have a huge role to play. They have to fund the scientists, the universities and the hospitals we support to do their work.