Lloyd Longfield at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Minister Duncan, for being here.

Thanks also for visiting the University of Guelph as many times as you have over the last four years.

I was meeting with one of our younger scientists, in fact, one who is being repatriated to Canada thanks to what we're doing by investing in science. In fact, five people on this team have come back to Canada as part of the brain gain. Jibran Khokhar is a neuropsychopharmacologist. He's working on addictions and mental health, studying the effects in mice.

His concern has to do with early stage investment and what we're doing for young scientists doing higher risk science versus the traditional larger investments in science.

Could you comment on the work of the Canada research coordinating committee or any other way that we're doing investment in younger stage scientists?