According to this March 2026 policy, the Canada research chairs program says that institutions that miss their 2029 equity targets will lose chair allocations. It seems to suggest that universities will lose funding for not meeting government-mandated top-down DEI policies and that universities will lose more research chair funding for each DEI target that they don't meet.
Does that mean federal resource funding is now conditioned not only on merit but also on whether universities hit these DEI targets?