Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Minister, for appearing.
Recently Australia's ambassador to the United States said that the Biden administration is seeking closer research collaboration with its allies and was watching closely how allies like Canada managed China's interference with Canadian universities. He said that Washington will likely rule out research partnerships with universities and maybe even countries that disregard national security concerns.
The U.S. government provides about $50 billion Canadian a year to the National Institutes of Health. A lot of that funding goes to Canadian researchers, compared to about $3 billion from all of Canada's four granting councils.
Minister Champagne said in March that guidelines on research partnerships are forthcoming. When are they going to be released?