I think there is a problem with understanding the way research is done. I, like my colleagues, applaud the investments in large complex grants which allow people to come together across fields. Multi-disciplinary research is the answer to the pressing problems of our times. It's no longer stay in your lane, but again, it needs to be understood that it's not the PIs who write those grants and who are doing the work at the bench. It needs to be understood that this amounts to exploitation of young people.
It is important that the 2023 budget did not see these issues as being sufficiently important to change the direction of the budget, and that's why we're here. That's why people who haven't protested in the past are here. That's why the Canadian Black Scientists Network is aligning with our colleagues, because we are, quite frankly, desperate.