Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I always like to have data. I'm a very factual guy, but you know, it's kind of futile when you know that a government invests zero dollars. It's not hard to do better than zero. When $134 million, $137 million or $162 million could be invested, zero dollars doesn't make much difference. When we are the only G7 country to have reduced our investments, when we compare our gross domestic product with that of other G7 countries, we don't need to know how many millions of dollars been have invested. When we're the only G7 country losing researchers, we know that, too.
I'm going to put my questions to the Science and Policy Exchange representatives. We talked about the United States, which is very attractive. They have decided to double—I did say double, Mr. Chair—the budget of their largest five-year funding program through the CHIPS and Science Act. This means that our ambitious and talented researchers will end up going south to do their research. Canada is at risk of becoming even more of a scientific colony. I have quoted Dr. Chad Gaffield of the U15 network, who came to the committee to present his views.
I would like the Science and Policy Exchange representatives to tell us what they plan to do about this situation.