Science and Research committee  In inflationary terms, you're exactly accurate. The values are now much less than they were 20 years ago, of course. Yes, there are many students who are in dire straits. Many students are using food banks. If you go to the website for Support Our Science, there are lots of graduate and post-doc students who are telling their stories there, and it is heartbreaking.

Science and Research committee  Thank you very much. Dear Mr. Chair and members of the committee, thank you for the invitation to be with you today. I'm speaking to you from Winnipeg, Canada, Treaty 1 land, which is home to many first nations today and the homeland of the Métis nation. For background, I am a professor of biology at the University of Toronto Mississauga and the Canada research chair in urban environmental science.