Yes. Thank you for the question.
Let me switch to French to answer the question. That will be easier for me.
When filing the grant application, you need to indicate how the funds will be spent in the years covered by the grant. You also need to indicate the number of students and postdoctoral students you will have and what equipment you will be using, among other things. The reality is, as I said earlier, it's hard to predict the pace of scientific progress and needs from year to year. For example, it's imperative that the programs allow us to acquire new equipment instead of hiring a certain number of students as planned. That's what's really going to change the game.
We're developing ecosystems as part of international moonshot programs. For example, in Sherbrooke, we're developing them through the Canada First Research Excellence Fund. To do it, we need the most talented scientific researchers and students, but we also need people to manage the research. However, very few major grants, if any, provide funding for these research staff, and without them productivity drops drastically.
So my answer is this: We need the flexibility to decide where to allocate budgets and to hire more staff, something research grants typically do not provide.