I fully agree. I'll give you an example. A post-doctoral fellow in my lab was considering moving to the U.S. because they have a K99 fellowship program. The funding from it gives you a much higher salary, and you also get investments to kick-start your own lab. In some ways the government is investing in the top talents to keep them in their country. I'm very glad the CIHR has now come up with a targeted fund that's very similar to the K99 program, but it is still not as broad and wide as we would expect in Canada.
Most colleagues of mine, most post-doctoral friends of mine, go to Boston or somewhere else in the U.S. for a post-doctoral studies, and they find jobs. Why can't we keep them in Canada and offer them competitive salaries so they can kick-start their own laboratories and chase blue sky science? I think there is absolute merit to doing that and to keeping our trainees here in Canada. I fully agree.