Finance committee  I'm not an economist, but I do believe in investing in the future.

Finance committee  I think our young people, our young researchers, and our research and our graduate programs and our graduate students are the future, and I think we should invest in them somehow.

Finance committee  Thank you. I am Mark Dale, the dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Alberta, and the president of the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies, as mentioned. Thank you for this opportunity. It is broadly acknowledged that programs of higher education research are important to the future of this country.