Mr. Vats, the report from the Advisory Panel on the Federal Research Support System, once again, commissioned by your government and tabled in March 2023, recommended increasing core research funding, improving conditions for succession, modernizing federal laboratories and strengthening coordination among the three granting agencies. However, in budget 2025, none of those central recommendations were implemented.
How do you explain this contradiction between the findings of the Bouchard report and a budget that doesn't implement any of its recommendations? Does your department intend to take action, or has that report been shelved?