The overall success rate at CIHR is a little below 20%, which doesn't sound bad. It's pretty good, compared with other places. The problem is that there are no longer poor grants being submitted to CIHR. It's all excellent, all very good stuff, so the question becomes whether it is superb or just good.
The other problem is that CIHR, unlike NIH, does not fund faculty support. So in response to the question before from Dr. Duncan, if the need is for training people, and particularly to train clinician scientists, we need to make this more attractive to Canada.