Mr Prime Minister, there's a planet-killing meteor heading for Earth and the Americans have asked us to put together our best team of researchers and astronauts to figure out how to stop it...it'll be here in 3 months

uumm, ahh, O.k...who have the Americans put on the task

28 of their top scientists at MIT as well a team of 14 shuttle astronauts

Uum, ahh, are the teams mixed, men and women? 

I believe so sir, the best men and women they have

ahhh, um, O.K, uhh, has Science Minister Duncan been briefed ?

yes Prime Minister...she has and she's on it

Great, umm, ahh, what did she say..?

She says it'll take 14 months to do the proper 50/50 diversity screening for the research and astronaut teams, right now we've got a Humanities PhD from the Research Chair program going through the CVs...