Sure. I really appreciate the question, and I also really appreciate the work you did while you were in Nova Scotia.
We should be doing both: investing in research, because it's really important that both the federal and provincial governments and the private sector invest significantly, and also looking at unlocking the potential of our research institutions. That involves some element of deregulating and enabling the researchers to get on with the research. I think we've learned a lot through COVID about what we need to do there.
I guess the other observation I would make is that as we move forward—and Rob's been very good about this—we have a tendency to want to jump to the end of the story, to how this discovery leads to X, Y or Z, but we have to make sure that we invest in that front end. If there's a plea that the universities in the country have right now, it's that as we drive to innovation, to jobs and to economic growth, let's make sure we feed our researchers. Let's invest in our researchers. Let's make sure they have the tools they need.
The pandemic has given us a chance to reflect on what has worked in Canada and what can be done better. I'm so pleased this committee has been structured to look at this over the long term.