Madam Speaker, speaking from my own university experience, especially on the research side, it is an extremely competitive environment.
Never—or hardly ever—would a university turn down a candidate with high research potential who will publish and make the university look good regardless of that candidate's skin colour or ethnic origin.
My sense is that the Liberals and the NDP think our motion presupposes that, in the absence of federal criteria, universities would engage in discriminatory hiring practices.
I think that is deeply insulting to the research community in Quebec and Canada, a community made up of highly educated people who are very much in favour of diversity.
I would like to know what my colleague thinks of that. Is that kind of thinking across the way an insult to our institutes of higher learning?