Thank you, Dr. Blais.
You spoke of resources. We'll come back to talent attraction and retention later.
Canada lagging behind in its R&D investments is nothing new. It's the only G7 country to have reduced its investments in research and development in the past 20 years. Only a few months ago, Science magazine—not just any magazine—denounced the situation and expressed concern about researchers coming to Canada for their research but getting no funding.
This sends the wrong message. If you look across the border, you see that the Americans have doubled their funding for research through the National Science Foundation. So you can see that the brains will inevitably drain to the United States. How do you keep the brains here if the federal government isn't investing?