No, in Canada it's not. Worldwide, there's basically no research funding, whether it comes from a private institution or a government institution, that doesn't pay overhead. The reason is that the funders are paying for certain research, but the researchers are not building the labs themselves or paying for the heat. The university needs that. Actually, 40% is a bit low in some cases, such as medical. For instance, I have colleagues at UCLA, and 60% is what they can be charged on medical grants.
The universities do need that money. They're supplying me with a lab. They're supplying graduate students with services. That money in Canada, though, is from a tri-agency paid via a block grant. There are various tipping points, but I believe it's $7 million in funding in any one year. If you're above that, you then fall into essentially the category that Toronto and everybody belongs to, but that's quite a hard number to get, even for a university like the University of Lethbridge, with 600 faculty members. We're below that, which means we get kind of a base amount, plus some share of a percentage of the funding that we receive to go to overhead. It pays for the research administration staff. It pays for financial staff and everything.