I think it's a really important question.
The first thing I should say is that I am a social scientist, a political scientist, and my knowledge of, for example, the hard science environment in places like Waterloo is not particularly high.
I would emphasize something I touched on briefly towards the end, which is that these granting agencies mostly fund a great deal of research. I found far more limited evidence of this activist EDI at NSERC, for example.
We are in an era of increased financial restraint and large budget deficits. As I've shown in my report, the at times justified perception is that these agencies are not funding objective new knowledge or knowledge creation but instead funding ideological projects where activists are continuing to do activism but with more federal government money. I think the appetite from the public and from legislators is going to be to move away from this and say that's an area where we can and should cut. I think that would be a shame, so that's why I'm suggesting reform to avoid those potential cuts down the line.