Thank you for the question, Madam Chair.
I mentioned Impact+ in my initial remarks. This is a timely initiative. It's helping Canada meet the moment when there's a lot of uncertainty in the broader scientific ecosystem.
It's been well designed in that, as I was mentioning, it looks at the entirety of that talent continuum. There is funding there to attract top post-doc and graduate researchers all the way through to world-class researchers.
It's also key to stress to this committee—because I think it has heard earlier testimony about some of the challenges with a brain drain, especially to the U.S., that Canada has experienced in the past—that Impact+ is also designed to welcome back Canadian researchers who maybe moved overseas in the past. That's something we really want to stress. Now is a great moment to come back to Canada to do your work here, to advance your ideas here and to work with Canadians here.
Like I said, our universities have been working very proactively to encourage world-class researchers to come to Canada and advance their ideas here, thanks to this timely initiative.
