Health committee  I would agree it's probably in that same order of magnitude, the 70:30 or 80:20 perspective. If you look at most major developments that are out in the private sector, they've been developed under a kind of fundamental research. You do need to leverage that in, but that input from the private sector is still needed to give us some sense.

Health committee  We have about seven different funding partners that give us operating funding right now. It's probably in the order of about 80% from the federal sources and then from the Province of Saskatchewan, the University of Saskatchewan, and some industry revenue as well. It comes from a number of places.

Health committee  It allows us, number one, to keep the lights on, to keep the facility operating. We have about 200 staff. Probably 70 of them are at the masters or Ph.D. level, so we have a large cross-section of scientists who work in myriad different sectors, including life sciences and health sciences, environmental sciences, and material sciences trying to find those ways to help them push back the frontiers.

Health committee  Thank you very much. I have to agree with our colleagues here, but it's also finding those ways to get Canada to better leverage the investments in infrastructure. How does an organization, such as Canadian Light Source where I come from, find better ways to leverage the capacities at the University of Western Ontario with their MRI program, or at Dalhousie University?

Health committee  Absolutely.

Health committee  I have one very quick comment around that, where you're trying to find ways to leverage this and bring people together. There's a very interesting model in Quebec in the aerospace sector called CRIAQ. It is the Quebec aerospace consortium. They do innovation forums where they bring industry in with academia.