Okay. Thank you very much.
We're trying to clarify things a little bit. Allow me to quote people who have spoken publicly, including representatives of the U15 group, an association of the 15 leading universities in Canada. There is some vagueness. Even researcher David Robinson, executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, said that he did not know why his association had been rejected. He tried to obtain information, but he was told that there was not necessarily an explanation for that response. Let me give you some concrete examples. Of the 48 proposals submitted to NSERC by the U15 group, 34 were rejected without further responses.
I know that new measures, tool kits and assessment forms are being put in place, but what can you tell us about those refusals and, above all, the lack of explanations?
In recent years, researchers have been told to create partnerships and build alliances everywhere because science is universal. Today, however, they do not have clear instructions on how to go about it.