Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being with us today.
I'm going to begin with Dr. Hewitt from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
We recently had Dr. Gad Saad before this committee. He said during his testimony that:
...there has been an autocorrection of all this diversity, inclusion and equity stuff in the United States. ...I see no autocorrection taking place in Canada. If anything, I see the doubling down of all of the parasitic nonsense in Canada.
...science is a fully meritocratic thing. Nobody gives a damn about your identity markers. The best people should be doing the best science, period.
Would you agree with that statement or not?