Science and Research committee  Yes, it is absolutely a situation we are experiencing in all the universities, and particularly in the regions. The pull of the labour market is very strong, with full employment and the labour shortage in our regions at present. One of the important factors is certainly increas

Science and Research committee  Thank you for your question. For some researchers in the natural sciences and engineering, we do sometimes get the feeling that the applications are being evaluated differently when they are written in French rather than English. It is easier to find English-speaking evaluators

Science and Research committee  We are depriving ourselves of an unbelievable capacity to develop solutions that are tailored to the situations in our communities. In fact, the analogy I often offer is of a person who has lots of money and buys a lot of cars, but can't use them because they have no money left

Science and Research committee  In terms of concrete solutions, I spoke earlier about the challenges that arise in the evaluation process, in terms of how the circumstances of researchers in smaller institutions in the regions are taken into account. That is an important factor. We have to make sure that the ev

Science and Research committee  In fact, I am a strong advocate of measuring potential from different angles. We often evaluate excellence using a certain number of indicators: for example, how many scientific articles a person has produced and how much funding was associated with them. We look at the person's

Science and Research committee  Studies show that, all things being equal, grants, even small ones, are important. That is, productivity doesn't increase tenfold when the grant is ten times higher. So what is important is to be able to provide post-docs who have been trained for research, everywhere in Canada a

Science and Research committee  Thank you for your question. Certainly, getting enough research grants is an important factor in terms of attracting and retaining students. Ultimately, it makes it possible to pay those grants back in the form of scholarships to students. Scholarships are an important factor in

Science and Research committee  Testing. Can you hear me?

Science and Research committee  As I was just saying, the funding provided by the federal government through grants and scholarships is one of the important factors. When universities in the regions receive these scholarships and grants, they return them in large part to students in the form of funding, as is w

Science and Research committee  Yes, of course. There are a number of examples. First, we need only think of access to funding for the Canada Research Chairs and the funding offered by the Canada Foundation for Innovation. Quotas are imposed based on the number of federal grants received in the past. So this n

Science and Research committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I would like to thank the committee members for inviting us here today. My name is François Deschênes and I am the rector at UQAR, the Université du Québec à Rimouski. With me is Étienne Carbonneau, from the head office of the Université du Québec. UQAR