Thank you for your question.
Cuts were made between 2011 and 2015, and more money has been invested in research since 2015, but not in scholarships.
Cuts were also made to student programs, as they were to the other chair programs and research funding in general. It's hard to understand why scholarships weren't funded after 2015.
That situation was partly rectified by the 2019 budget, but the funding we need to return to the level we had before the cuts, before 2011, is still lacking.
I would note that the federal granting councils have criteria of excellence. When students meet those criteria and we can't fund them, we lose opportunities to develop more highly qualified workers, and that's unfortunate.