Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I thank the witnesses for their very interesting testimony.
In rereading the bill and listening to the witnesses, I thought to myself that it was quite surprising, upsetting, even astounding, to see that the cerebral cortex, the organ that enables humans to hold the highest position on the species ladder, is the one on which we know the least.
In testimony, the word “research” kept coming up, much more so than in the study of many bills. Without research, this bill…. There was a time when it was taboo to talk about sports-related brain injuries. That's not insignificant.
Ms. Beauchamp, I was shocked by what you talked about. I don't want to make a pun, but I've always thought that Canada, as a G7 country, should invest heavily in research in order to keep the brains here. You said that, in 15 years, you had supervised 48 students who survived solely on grants—I don't know the amount of those grants—and who, by devotion, had to continue doing research in this field in Canada.
Can you tell us more about that?