Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for coming here today. I hope you had the opportunity to review some of the testimony we heard last week because some of my questions will concentrate on what we heard, and I'd like your opinions.
My first question is for Mr. Miller. Last week we heard some witnesses who claimed that, by pursuing equity, diversity and inclusion, you inevitably reduce the research output of an institution or country. Perhaps you could tell us, from your experience, to what extent EDI plays a part in the evaluation of applications for funding, for federal funding? There was a claim that it was akin to affirmative action, which I have always seen as something applied to human resources and hiring of individuals, not to research applications. Could you tell us a little about the weighting of this sort of analysis related to EDI?