Yes, that's well said. It's a bit of a hamster wheel. Some new universities, like Yukon University or Capilano, are really having trouble here because, in order to attract talent, you need to be able to show that you have some infrastructure to be able to do research, that you have time to do research and that you have grad programs and students who actually have funding to come to university. All of that creates a really challenging environment for them.
In many ways, on the smaller administration teams, those few researchers don't have the cluster of people around them. They might be the only chemist who does stuff on tire toxins, and the other one who does that might be in another province. Some of those barriers, both for researchers and for the institutions, cause real problems.
The last one is that we typically have very small research teams, so for a short, last-minute announcement on a program or a call, we just don't have the ability to lobby and get everyone together in time. Sometimes it's because of proximity. I believe the U15 know about these calls well in advance. They have better research teams and staff to pull together a competitive proposal before we do.