Steven Pinker (Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, As an Individual) at the Science and Research Committee

Madam Zahid, Monsieur Blanchette-Joncas and members of the Standing Committee on Science and Research, as a proud Canadian and graduate of Dawson College and McGill University, it is a tremendous honour to speak to you today about diversity in science.

Starting in the late 1970s, the concept of diversity became popular in the United States after the Supreme Court ruled—