Thanks, Rob, and thanks, Richard, for your question.
It really is, as you noted, sometimes these wicked problems that can help break some of the bottlenecks that have existed.
On the data-sharing piece, as Rob alluded to, this is certainly one where through the experience of our Canadian COVID-19 Genomics Network we were able, by virtue of coming together around the national challenge of creating a network for viral surveillance, to influence real-time policy decisions in real time.
We created this infrastructure of really important governance committees, which included our public sector partners at the provincial health labs, the academics, and the government funding partners to really come together to develop cross-provincial standards around data sharing that probably would have taken a lot longer, but given the urgency of the COVID challenge needed to be developed urgently. It enabled different sectors that hadn't maybe worked together as much—the public health labs and the academics—to develop a sense of trust, and it built up a sense of common purpose.
Our hope is that this has created some movement of the needle for data sharing that can be, I think, really enhanced. That's a strong priority for Genome Canada in our ongoing work, but that sense of purpose and urgency helped create newer protocols and data-sharing practices that wouldn't have existed otherwise.
That's just one example, but we're certainly looking to carry that forward in some of the other challenge areas we have identified in the agricultural space and in climate change genomics, etc.