Thank you, Madam Chair.
I would like to welcome the witnesses who are with us this evening.
My questions will be mainly for Mr. Deschênes and Mr. Carbonneau.
Thank you for being with us this evening, gentlemen.
Mr. Deschênes, I quite liked your opening presentation. You highlighted a number of problems faced by small and mid-sized regional universities. I would like to carry on from what you were saying, when you mentioned that Quebec's university network was an extensive one. I would say that Quebec's university network is the biggest university network in Canada. I'm proud of it and I'm a proud representative of the Université du Québec à Rimouski, from which I graduated.
Mr. Deschênes, you made clear the inequality between universities in the regions and those located in the big urban centres. Could you propose concrete solutions to combat this phenomenon?