I don't think universities are capable of screening national security issues. They're not resourced. They don't have the wherewithal and they're not experts. They have experts in photonics and quantum computing. They graduate up through the ranks and become administrators of these institutions, but they're not experts on national security. We even saw the University of Waterloo issuing guidelines to researchers to slow down, advising them they don't have to work with CSIS.
We should be collaborating and working together. The universities themselves benefit. They take a bit of money, and then they do whatever they want. Yes, there are new rules and some additional scrutiny, but it doesn't correct the dereliction of their duty to the public interest in the past. They made a mistake and they continue to make mistakes. It hasn't been corrected and I wouldn't trust them to correct it themselves.