I just want to jump in and say that we are at the bottom of various lists of countries in terms of how much money the federal government puts into research. There have been a lot of suggestions out there, from the Bouchard report, that we should dramatically increase that funding. This would ameliorate the situation. This would stop researchers and students from going elsewhere for funding or even going elsewhere, period.
Someone got in touch with me yesterday about their son, who ended up going to Vienna for university because he had a scholarship that was worth twice as much as what NSERC would give him. He ended up going to Barcelona for a post-doc because they offered him twice as much as Canada would.
This is the funding draw that both researchers and students are finding. It would go a long way, I think, to stopping this flow of people going elsewhere—the research going elsewhere—who should be staying here in Canada.