Thank you.
Thanks again to this set of witnesses.
I'm going to stay with you, Dr. Khoo, and drill down on some of the issues that are purely monetary in many ways.
You mentioned that the private sector out-competes the academic sector. I recall when I was working summers as a biological student helper being shocked to find out that the geological prospectors that I met—students like me—who were working for the summer with private companies in the Yukon mountains were making six times what I was making. I thought very seriously of going into geology at the time.
One thing we haven't talked about.... We've heard about the grad student funding that NSERC and other of the tri-councils provide, and the post-doc funding. I think you've looked at some of the funding that is provided for these jobs between years when students are trying to get experience that will be valuable in the years to come.
I'm reading something you put together that said the NSERC undergraduate programs for these summer jobs, even after the university kicks in their share, are barely minimum wage, if at all. Is that what you found?