I will take the opportunity to plug some good work that I think is part of the answer in getting better information and data, and it gets to the point of what resources the department uses to draw on.
The Council of Canadian Academies, if you are familiar with it, is a foundation that does impeccable work to collect evidence on questions of which the government, and in fact our department, has been a heavy user. We are also the host for the funding arrangement with them. In 2012, we commissioned a report called “Strengthening Canada's Research Capacity: The Gender Dimension”. This arose as a consequence of recommendations that we commissioned in terms of enhancing the profile and the ultimate success of women in higher research.
We had the Canada Excellence Research Chairs inaugural competition, and those who were selected, those who were given awards—and these are big awards, $10-million awards over seven years—were all men. I am sure they were all meritorious. These were fantastic researchers around the world. However, we immediately turned to an ad hoc group to ask them to look at recommendations about where we could improve the performance. One of the things we commissioned was this report, and I can report that the next round of Canada Excellence Research Chairs had women among the awardees.