Through you, Madam Chair, first, I should say I'm not a researcher myself but, of course, I've been working with universities for several years and, now, with Universities Canada for eight months.
What I would say is that, in all of my interactions with the tri-council and with researchers in our community, what has been paramount in all of their work and in their assessment of research projects has been excellence, the potential to really create change inside the discipline, the ability to contribute to the training of graduate students and evaluation on the basis of merit. There's no question that there's been growing interest, discussion and, in some cases, policies around efforts to expand opportunities so that a broader group of Canadians can participate and contribute their perspectives and talent, which, ultimately, is in itself a major contributor to excellence. My observation has been that there is a concerted effort in the community to expand opportunity, but to support merit and excellence, not to compete with it.