As I mentioned earlier, I am worried about that. The success rate in CIHR competitions, for example, is declining. It's below 20% in each competition, meaning that excellent research proposals are not being funded. Furthermore, even when a project is funded, 26% to 27% of the research budget is generally cut from each grant, because there is less money to hire staff.
As several speakers mentioned beforehand, it's important to invest funds not only on infrastructure, but also on highly qualified staff and graduate students, or even postdoctoral fellows. It's important to have significant budgets that can provide grants for educational and research internships, to ensure that Canada has a high-level scientific community available for recruitment in the biomanufacturing and vaccine manufacturing industries.
That troubles me even more than the supply chains. The latter are of course a concern, but I think that matter will be sorted out. We nevertheless need to continue to develop our qualified workers so that they can work in these industries over the coming years.