Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Welcome to all of you. I've certainly appreciated your presentations here today.
My first questions are going to be for the Alberta Pulse Growers Commission.
I appreciated reading through your brief. I just want to focus on your third recommendation on ensuring flexibility for research scientists, and I'm wondering if you could clarify for me a statement you made. In your brief it says, “One of the program funding conditions prevents using the funds to hire full time staff.” Then you talked a little bit about labour shortages.
Can you explain that a little bit more for me?