I think we have to focus on merit. We have to focus on excellence and do away with the privileging of identity factors.
Increasingly, within universities in Canada, there are advertisements, which you may have heard of from other witnesses, that for a particular position, you need to have a particular race—you have to be Black, you have to be indigenous or you have to be a woman—instead of focusing on an individuals' abilities to best meet the needs of that science. It's focusing on excellence and on their actual production as an individual instead of focusing on something where, by an accident of fate, they are a particular race or a particular background.
People don't bring that to the table per se. That is just something they are, rather than what they focus on with their work. That excellence should be the benefit we're looking for.