Science and Research committee  That could be.

Science and Research committee  Those are decisions or initiatives that are announced by government in various budgets over the years. The government will make an investment, for example, in Black scholars, better supporting Black scholars, as was announced last year.

Science and Research committee  Thank you for the question. There are two programs: the Canada graduate scholarships master's program and the Canada graduate scholarships doctoral program. The master's level program is administered by universities. Therefore, we don't have data on the number of applications,

Science and Research committee  This may be due to people's perception of the ability of review committees to evaluate applications submitted in French. It may also be a matter of personal choice. I mentioned my own experience. University support is another criterion to consider. Ultimately, it depends on the

Science and Research committee  You would have to ask the researchers, because we will always accept all applications, whether they are in French or English. You would have to ask the researchers whether they were amenable to the idea of quotas.

Science and Research committee  The EDI dimension is an interesting one because the support NSERC provided went to educational institutions, not to researchers strictly speaking. The idea was to build institutional capacity to increase EDI. I want to be clear that I don't think any one measure is enough; a joi

Science and Research committee  Yes, you're absolutely right. We don't take it lightly. As I said, it's something we consider carefully in every program we administer and every action we take. We endeavour to identify unconscious bias. We are keeping up our efforts to promote science in French-speaking commun

Science and Research committee  For every funding program, we examine the data every year, whether through a language-, region- or EDI-based lens. We scrutinize every program through each of those lenses.

Science and Research committee  In NSERC, the question of open access is a challenging one. There is a whole business enterprise around scientific publications. An earlier witness talked about the big publishers, the Elseviers and Springers of the world. It's changing a paradigm from that system that has been

Science and Research committee  I don't have the data with me, unfortunately, but I would be happy to provide it to the committee. I highly doubt that it's 50%.

Science and Research committee  That's exactly what I was saying earlier. We need to dispel the myth that the success rate is lower for applications written in French. At NSERC, numbers show the opposite trend. In fact, the rate is slightly higher for requests in French across all programs.

Science and Research committee  There's still work to be done in this regard. Our data is public, and we're always happy to work with stakeholders to demystify it. Still, I'm convinced that more could be done.

Science and Research committee  Yes, the gap is large. I don't know if any research has been done, but I can tell you that this is very frequently discussed. At NSERC, every time we put together an initiative or a program, we ask ourselves this question to make sure there's no unconscious bias. We don't have

Science and Research committee  NSERC and the other two granting agencies, SSHRC and CIHR, signed on to DORA two or three years ago, I think. Don't quote me, but it's something like this. It's fairly recent. Two elements are important for the implementation of DORA. One, which may seem trivial, is that we nee

Science and Research committee  There's no single answer to this question. As I mentioned, at NSERC, we work very hard to ensure that the evaluation of grant applications is fair. I say that humbly. Since there are variations among academic institutions, it's unlikely that success rates will vary because of N