I heard you say a few minutes ago—maybe you were talking about NSERC specifically, but it may have been the capstone as well—that you don't want to be the policy. You don't want to shape policy. You are the deliverers of policy. You have the basic research that should be and, hopefully, will be done by researchers, who are doing it from a purely curiosity-based approach.
I keep coming back to missions, because people talk about the mission-driven approach.
Who is deciding what missions they are? Is it the researchers themselves who band together to undertake a mission, or is it the government telling them what to do? Is it the new advisory council that is doing this?