Finance committee  Our members have talked about that impact on a number of occasions. Various studies were underway, such as labour market integration, employment equity—but not necessarily employment quality—and understanding other life circumstances. Every study on those questions was affected

Finance committee  Exactly.

Finance committee  That is an excellent question. It is the fundamental debate in innovation: things like trying to identify the sources of innovation, the role of government, the role of private business and other players. There have been some attempts in the last 10 years. There was one basic on

Finance committee  That is an excellent question. We should use the example of countries that support public education, access and research, but also basic research by private business.

Finance committee  I have a couple of things. I first would like to say that we are limited in terms of the time we have to make presentations. I would be thrilled if the FINA committee or the HUMA committee or any other committee would examine accessibility of post-secondary education and tenure

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, members of the committee, thank you for giving us the opportunity to present our suggestions for the next federal budget on behalf of 68,000 professors, librarians, researchers, professionals and other staff working in over 120 universities and colleges across the coun