It was mentioned earlier that there's an investment of about $4.2 billion, and about a quarter of that or maybe a little more is dedicated to interdisciplinary programming.
Some of them extend back to the previous government. The Canada first research excellence fund is a very large program of about $250 million to $300 million a year that is invested explicitly in interdisciplinary programming of large scale and import.
We have our new frontiers in research fund, which has as a mandate international research and interdisciplinary research at the cutting edge.
We work together as agencies. We developed a program in response to concerns of researchers over the years about how they can get funded if their work crosses agency boundaries. We've now created a program we call TAIPR, which is the tri-agency interdisciplinary peer review program, in which people can apply to any of our agencies by ticking a box indicating that this goes across agencies, and it gets put through a separate peer review mechanism. We're working very hard to ensure those opportunities are, in fact, growing and not decreasing.
