For researchers, obviously their first loyalty is to their science and finding the antecedent conditions for success. That means availability of research funding and availability of funding for students—and your previous panel spoke about this—and availability of a livable wage for those undertaking fellowship training and beyond.
It's the opportunity for the expensive infrastructure that many research endeavours require, not unlike what the Canada Foundation for Innovation invests in. There is, of course, unlimited demand for tri-council funding. There is a very large amount of excellent science that we are unfortunately unable to fund.
Then there's the international competitiveness.
However, I don't think it has to turn us off or down. I see the green book, Madam Duncan, and I'll be quiet.
I have just a quick thought. Looking at international science, I don't believe we have to bring everyone to Canada. I think we can look at models like the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research and buy pieces of the very best researchers anywhere in the world, and they would come to Canada for periods of time. If COVID has proven anything, it's that we can collaborate around the world without movement, and nowhere more so than in science.