Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to all our presenters today for their opening comments.
I want to talk a bit about the research grants that are available out there.
Dr. Mossman, you talked about your funding and how that's being provided by the CIHR.
Dr. Wright, you are very grateful for the funding you're getting, according to your testimony here.
Dr. Tremblay, you congratulate the government for the money that it put toward research, although you've mentioned that short-term funding opportunities have the only available research dollars and you see no more future announcements for funding.
The committee, back on April 14, heard that the CIHR, in collaboration with the provinces, was able to invest $54.2 million to support COVID-19. On April 23, our committee heard that an additional $115 million in funding was allocated as part of a $1.1-billion national medical research strategy for COVID-19.
In hearing from all of you today, some of you are grateful for the funding you're receiving, others not so much.
Dr. Quach-Thanh, you mentioned that it is difficult to obtain grants from the CIHR. I'm just a bit confused here. Some of you are happy with the research dollars and others are not. How many more billions of dollars do we need in order to satisfy the researchers in Canada?
I'll start with Dr. Quach-Thanh, please.