It's interesting. In effect, people are committing academic dishonesty by having to lie on an application to ensure that they can get a program funded on the basis of research excellence. I think there's something wrong with that system when we're creating a system like that.
Mr. Freeman, you recently wrote an article that was published in The Hub. It was entitled “Canada’s universities have lost their way. So why do we keep giving them public money with no strings attached?” In the opening paragraph, you observed, “Something is seriously wrong with universities.”
What are some of those issues that you observed and identified that led you to this claim?