Thank you, Madam Chair.
I just want to inform you that I wish to give a notice of motion. Following the committee's unanimous adoption of the motion about access to data from granting councils on December 3, we received a joint response from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. This response raises some important questions about how to establish a data governance protocol and a secure data transfer process to enable the assessment of funding equity.
As such, I give notice of the following motion to invite representatives of the three granting councils to appear before the committee so that it can fulfill its oversight role and hear directly from them about concrete ways to move forward:
In light of the response transmitted to the Committee by the three federal granting councils following the motion adopted unanimously on December 3, 2025, namely the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and pursuant to Standing Order 108(1), that the Committee invite representatives of the three Councils to appear in order to question them on the concrete means of establishing a data governance protocol and a secure data transfer process to enable the assessment of funding equity, no later than February 12, 2026.
I just wanted to give notice of this motion. I will continue with my questions now.