Thank you, Madam Chair.
Professor Snow, you noted that the Canadian Institutes of Health Research now defines excellence as being anti-racist, anti-colonial and anti-ableist, meaning, opposed to discrimination based on disability. The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada issues some calls for proposals that are already ideologically biased.
Wouldn't this type of criterion distract from the primary mission of these organizations, which should be to fund open research, regardless of its focus?