Thank you.
I'd like to thank the witnesses for being here this evening.
I'm going to start with Ms. Wishart.
You made quite an eloquent plea to invest in students at all levels. It made a lot of sense to me. I think we should view the funding that we put into students as an investment for the future in so many ways.
You talked about how the funding provided for living expenses of master's, Ph.D, post-doc students has remained stagnant over the past 20 years. I have the feeling also that the number of those grants has declined as well.
I'm wondering if you could expand on that. Do you know where Canada sits globally with that sort of support, and why would students in their right minds want to stay here if they were able to live more comfortably and get on with good science somewhere else in the world?