Thank you for your question. I want to recruit you to be a supporter for ACCRU. You speak very passionately.
The ACCRU alliance wants to have increased funding. If we follow the Naylor report, and if we were able to match or increase the amount based on inflation, this would essentially raise all votes. This would enhance U of T's capacity, as well as Bishop's capacity, to enhance the research agenda.
Yes, we would certainly love to see this increase. It would provide us with much better capacity to not only support the research we have now, but engage in more research, whether it's peer or applied.
I think the RSF is a very important issue for us, but so is the funding for undergraduate research awards. As I mentioned, currently it's NSERC only, but to provide that kind of research opportunity for social sciences and humanities students, as well as for students in the health research world, I think, is very important.
These are skills not just in the typical sense of research. This isn't about being a lab student. This is research writ large. This is students interacting with businesses, with community and with government. These are experiential research opportunities for all of our students that would be enhanced not only by the undergraduate research awards, but also by Mitacs.