The ability to bring expertise to the table doesn't speak to what the past research history has been. When we think about trying to bring in any new kind of research or any new kind of researcher—anything that is beyond what has been done before—it speaks to what the review criteria are and what questions we are asking. In order to have any kind of expansion of what research is in the country, we need to look beyond what has happened before.
I don't have a problem with one institution having multiple research chairs or research centres, because you can have more than one expertise in a large institution. However, I have some difficulty with the idea that research funding has largely been concentrated in a very few when there are clearly very valuable contributions to be made by the wider community of our researchers.