Finance committee  There was a general cut for student education funding, and that included cuts to the granting council.

Finance committee  That's right.

Finance committee  I don't know that off the top of my head, but it's certainly higher than that.

Finance committee  One of our recommendations was for graduate students to be allowed to apply for the national system of needs-based grants that the current government implemented this year. Currently graduate students are not allowed to.

Finance committee  Sure. The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council covers about 50% of graduate students enrolled in universities, and we're asking for that increase to the Canada graduate scholarship, which is not money for infrastructure. It's not money for laboratories. It's not money

Finance committee  According to the latest budget, about a third of the money or less goes to social sciences and humanities. We would like to see at least 50% of the money go to the social sciences and humanities graduate students.

Finance committee  Good morning, and thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today about graduate student priorities for Budget 2010. The National Graduate Caucus is Canada's largest graduate students organization, representing more than 70,000 graduate students from more than 30 campuses ac