I really appreciate the question.
Again, the stipends and graduate scholarships are one vehicle. However, the most important vehicle is increasing the granting councils' operating budgets so they can provide the grants to principal researchers, who can, in turn, staff their labs with top talent. Pieter Cullis, in addition to finding the key process for mRNA vaccines, also created two businesses in Vancouver that have kept 500 young people in Vancouver employed and staying in Canada.
Graduates today are looking around the world and seeing the U.S. invest at record levels. They are seeing it in the U.K., Japan, Germany and even Finland. Investing in the granting councils is key to success for Canada's research enterprise.