Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, Minister.
I'd like to chat a bit about post-secondary education and research, if I could. You had budget documents from the spring that correctly indicate that since the deficit was tamed Canada has invested in research. In fact, it has reversed the brain drain, which is a quote from the book, and gone to the top of the G7 in terms of publicly funded research.
There's a commonly held view, which was certainly expressed to us as we travelled Canada, that the next frontier in university is access and the issue of ensuring that Canadians who have not been able to get to university for reasons of income, or others, receive some assistance in doing so, and that it's good for the country and it's good for them.
Do you have any views on the federal government having a role in ensuring access for Canadian students?