Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
My first questions are for Dr. Dyck.
Dr. Dyck, you are a history professor and hold a tier 1 Canada research chair in the history of health and social justice. According to my limited readings and various discussions with a number of professors, science ought to be universal, and free of ethnic or national considerations.
What I've seen today is a discussion about western knowledge and indigenous knowledge. Could you tell us how, throughout history, science may have been classified on the basis of its ethnic or national nature? For example, we don't currently refer to algebra as Arabic science, even though it was invented by Arabs.
I'd like you to explain to me how a branch of science can be described today as being ethnic or national.