Thank you, Madam Chair.
I would like to welcome the witnesses who are with us today as part of this study.
My first questions will be for you, Professor Gingras.
You've shown that excellence is largely a rhetorical notion. However, the New Frontiers in Research Fund, the Canada Research Chairs Program and the Canada First Research Excellence Fund all have this basic criterion.
Isn't that the tautology, in that those who receive the most funding are said to be excellent because they received funding?