What concerns me is that we think “no one told us not to do this” is any way to manage billions of dollars in publicly funded research. This is Canada's economic future. Ivana said it best—that the most promising opportunities need to remain domestic. We're letting this go. It's not happening. The universities are not governing themselves properly. This is a governance failure at the university level. It's also a provincial and federal responsibility.
Everybody has to step up and say that we need to do better and we need to reorient.