We're going to talk just on academia for a bit to start, and a bit about the current landscape in the States and then in Canada. It would be interesting to hear our witnesses' take on it.
Included in some of the associated costs that universities spend money on are the DEI programs. We see that American universities, such as the University of Michigan, have spent over a quarter of a billion dollars in the past few years. Of that cost, 56% was on salaries.
It got me thinking. How expensive is this project in Canada? Do either of the two witnesses want to take a stab at what that might be?
No.
It would be probably be in the millions, if not billions. This is while we have a crisis of every university and every group that comes in here representing students, professors or research asking for more money.
We have dollars that the taxpayers have provided Ottawa to provide studies—I'll open this up if either of you has comments—such as one at the University of Waterloo for $37,524, called “From Furries to Sport Fans”. This is a study that was done at the University of Waterloo.
Do you have any comments on that spend?