Thank you very much, Ms. Rempel Garner.
Your preamble was good. This is an extremely sensitive issue in the academic community, and it's tearing a lot of people apart.
The answer I want to give you is that all academic institutions, together with the granting agencies or councils, are very concerned about ensuring accessibility, equity, diversity, inclusion in the system for an entire profile of researchers and students.
For example, the Université du Québec was built historically to promote the accessibility of groups that were under-represented in university education or in research environments. For example, these are first-generation students, people who are a little older and have families. So we are used to welcoming a wide variety of students, but also of researchers.
Academic institutions' attempts or concerns are to promote a system that is as fair and diverse as possible. It would be wrong to claim in this debate that ensuring that diversity goes against excellence and merit.