Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for being with us this morning.
I want to follow up on one comment that was made about the notion of wanting to avoid embedding bias. Mr. Dummitt, I'm going to follow up with you. You had talked about how critically important the peer review system is.
You appeared on November 28, 2024, when you mentioned that “federal funding agencies, federal research agencies and the Canada research program are at the moment ignoring the single biggest and most egregious diversity problem in higher education, and that is viewpoint diversity.” Then you went on to say, “I think the lack of viewpoint diversity significantly damages the purpose of higher education, which I greatly support.”
How can viewpoint diversity advance research excellence in Canada?