Thank you, Madam Chair, for inviting me to speak on behalf of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, or SSHRC. I'm joined by my colleague, Tim Wilson, the associate vice‑president of the social sciences and humanities programs, along with our counterparts from the two other federal research funding agencies.
SSHRC's primary mandate is to fund research and research training in the social sciences and humanities, ensuring that Canada has the ideas and skills necessary to address both the problems of today and the challenges of tomorrow—