Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
It certainly does take a village to replace Mr. Cannings, and I'm sorry that I am a pale shadow of Mr. Cannings at this committee.
It's nice to see everyone here.
This is a particularly interesting study for me, because I have so many post-secondary institutions in my riding, including, of course, the University of Alberta. I'm grateful for all of you being here today. I think that might be where I'll start. I'll ask you a few questions about the current situation that we have in Alberta.
As we're looking at funding research and trying to find ways to better fund research across this country, in Alberta right now there is a piece of legislation that is limiting the ability of the university to do that because it actually says that the Alberta government has to determine which dollars can go through to the University of Alberta.
Can you talk about any worries that you have about how we keep political interference out of these decisions, how we ensure that the decisions are made in the best interests and have autonomy? Can you talk about that?
I'll start from left to right.