Thank you, Chair.
I want to welcome our witnesses to this very important study and give a personal shout-out to Western University in London.
I am very happy to have you join us to help us understand a bit more about research, especially with the lens of southwestern Ontario, Western being one of the U15 universities. There's also the collaboration you have within the region.
Welcome to the committee. I'll get right to it.
As I understand, funding is allocated to universities through a quota. Could you share with the committee a bit more about what the allocation is per university and how you understand it is decided? For example, is it by student population, amount of published research, etc., or is there any other factor you may consider to be a criterion that allows you to get that funding?