Thank you.
Thank you to all the panellists for being here today.
My question is for you, Mr. Pinker. You mentioned that, with the system as it is today, if anyone goes against the current orthodoxy, it creates a loss of trust in science, and I think this is the most detrimental effect of what's happening today in the DEI base.
I'm going to echo very quickly an article that came out: “a fellow academic scientist...said, 'I have made my peace with EDI. I will lie about my most deeply held beliefs or convictions on paper in order to get funding.'”
How would you assess the current merit-based criteria for federal funding in Canada? How will that trust be eroded in time, and how quickly, especially in innovation hubs like Kitchener Centre, where I'm from?