Thank you.
I will now come back to attracting and retaining talent. I set the scene for this earlier when I mentioned Canada's lack of investment. Normally, when we look elsewhere, things don't look so bad here. In this case, however, things do look pretty bad here. Canada is at the bottom of the list in the G7 when it comes to investment in research and development.
You said we were building on an attraction-based model, but now we're making sure we also make an effort to retain talent. Canada is the only G7 country to have lost researchers in the past six years. I point to the efforts of the University of Sherbrooke and some other universities, but when it comes to graduate school completion, once again Canada is at the bottom of the G7.
It's all well and good to come up with a national quantum and other strategies or moonshot programs, but if we don't have the investments needed, how can we ensure we've got the best talent in our establishments and research centres like yours?
