Thank you very much for your question. It's very interesting.
We believe that citizen science, participatory science, is science. The federal government has a mandate to promote science among the public, in particular through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
Why not, then, have programs that would encourage citizen science? The Council is already doing this with school-aged children. Why not promote this kind of science among Canadians in general, not just children? I think it's a program that deserves to be adopted.