It was a colleague I was speaking to from biochemistry. I'm not going to name the university. I'm not going to say it's within Manitoba, because it's actually a system-wide issue across Canada. They were explaining to me the funding levels. The minimum stipend level before tuition—and all students have to pay tuition with the stipends they get—was $17,500 for master's students and Ph.D. students in 2023. That's the same level of the Canada graduate scholarships master's program from 2003. That has been used as the bar.
If you look at graduate programs across the country, they're consistently using the tri-agency fellowship and scholarship levels to set their minimum bar. They're all shooting for the minimum. If tri-agency awards, scholarships and fellowships increase, that will put pressure on the universities to increase their stipend levels, and they'll be able to pay for those once we increase the grants as well. That's a key piece of this.