Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate that the Minister is saying there aren't enough northerners involved in northern technology research and that sort of thing. It seems to me that institutions that do research, the sort that he's talking about, tend to be fairly large institutions and typically well funded. I'm just wondering, is it realistic for us, given the size of our soon-to-be-two jurisdictions, for a population of, let's pick 35,000, to support activities of something as lofty as a science institute?

We can't support a full university up here, it appears. I'm having a hard time understanding how we can get into the scientific side, or what would appear to be the scientific side, of a university with a science institute and justify the expenditure.