Thank you, Chair.
Let me remind you that at the February 2, 2023 meeting of the Standing Committee on Science and Research, my colleague MP Maxime Blanchette-Joncas made two requests of the Department of Innovation, Science and Industry.
The first is to provide the Committee with the number of applications for funding and scholarships, in French and English, at Canada’s French-language and bilingual universities, by university and by granting agency, for the past 20 years.
The second request is for the funding provided by each granting agency to every Quebec university over the past 20 years.
After an initial response was sent to the Committee on March 21, 2023, the Committee had to follow up with the Department to request the missing information. Mr. Blanchette-Joncas also followed up personally with the Minister. A second response was sent to the Committee on Monday, April 24. Unfortunately, that response remains incomplete. The following data is still missing: for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the number of scholarships awarded in English and French, by institution, for the last 20 years; and for the three granting agencies, the value of scholarships awarded in English and French, by institution, for the last 20 years.
The Committee suspended the drafting and adoption of the report on research and scientific publication in French while awaiting this data, hence the urgency of obtaining it quickly.
So you received a notice of motion from my colleague Maxime Blanchette-Joncas on April 25. It is moved:
That the committee ask the Department of Industry to provide the missing information relative to the question asked by Maxime Blanchette-Joncas to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry during the meeting of February 2, 2023, that it do so before Thursday, May 4, 2023, at 11:00 a.m., and that the missing information provided be as follows: i) the number of scholarships granted in English and in French by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), by university, for the last 20 years; ii) the amount of scholarships granted by the three research granting agencies, by university, for the last 20 years.
Thank you, Chair.