I have seen a shift over my career. I've been a professor for 15 or 16 years. EDI has become more of a criterion that's been used to evaluate candidates, applicants for funding and students. All of that has increased. The conversation became pleasantly more nuanced about a year ago, and then, when President Trump came to power for the second time, it became much more heated again.
I have concerns about how it is used now in Canada. Some of the chilling effects that Dr. Pinker referred to are an issue, especially in the social sciences. In addition to perhaps excluding certain scientists from different perspectives, it also has the chilling effect of making certain questions too risky, or perceived as too risky, to pursue funding for. There are questions that I'm able to study only because I have considerable leeway in the research funds that were allocated to me through the Canada 150 research chairs program, which I don't think I would apply for dedicated funding to—