We are depriving ourselves of an unbelievable capacity to develop solutions that are tailored to the situations in our communities.
In fact, the analogy I often offer is of a person who has lots of money and buys a lot of cars, but can't use them because they have no money left to put gas in them.
At present, there are brains that are asleep that Canada could be gaining more from. This is an enormous loss. As I said, we don't know where the next revolutionary idea will come from.
As decision-makers, let's try to create fertile ground for all these researchers.