Absolutely. Thank you.
If I understood you correctly, I believe part of that is the problem with the benefits, such as EI and CPP, and health care, which we talked about. There is a chain of problems that are linked to each other because of the definition of post-doc, as we just talked about.
The other thing is that, according to the survey we have done, only 20% of the people are hired by the universities in the end. Given that we are talking about short-term positions, a person cannot necessarily can get an academic position in the first post-doc. Sometimes they go to the second one, the third one, the fourth one, and in the end sometimes in the fourth one the quality is lower because there is some legislation from the tri-agencies, for instance, that there is an eligibility period, and that they do not accept a Ph.D. or post-doc if the Ph.D. is from more than three years earlier. Those are the problems it causes.
The post-doc wants to reach the point they want to be at but they still have to try, but then the problem is that there is no funding reserve, unless there are universities that want to offer some of the private funding.
Those are the topics I can recall that are related to the item you raised.