Mr. Speaker, I reassure the hon. member that the research community has been extraordinarily consulted in the setting up of these institutes.
The interim governing council of the institutes has had subcommittees working on all matters from programs to peer review ethics, to knowledge management, to institute design, partnerships and commercialization. The subcommittees will be reporting and there will be a process by which there will be public feedback on those matters.
To repeat the letter I received from a researcher at U of T, the legislation is well balanced and enables the governing council to make the necessary decisions. It is important we understand that there will be a scientific advisory capability and a filter by which true scientists will be made heads of the institutes, true scientists will be put in positions of authority. It will be a process that scientists, and particularly the interim governing council, will be extraordinarily comfortable with. It really is important that it work.