Thank you, Madam Chair.
First of all, allow me to welcome and thank the witnesses joining us this evening.
My first questions are for Mr. Davidson from Universities Canada.
Mr. Davidson, I carefully read the briefs that you prepared. I even studied the last three, which were prepared for pre‑budget consultations in previous years, and I saw that the same recommendations were repeated several years in a row. One of them is more striking; you recommend that the federal government increase investments in Canadian research to remain competitive on the international stage.
Can you tell us how much the federal government should be investing in terms of GDP?