Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to welcome the witnesses who are with us for the second hour of this meeting.
Dr. Strickland, I would like to welcome you and thank you for being here. I also want to congratulate you on your career as a distinguished researcher. I know you're co‑laureate of the Nobel Prize in physics for your work on the development of laser technology. So it's an honour to have you here today.
I'd like to know about the distribution of funds for research funding. We want to see Nobel laureates in academic institutions, particularly institutions that don't have a prestigious history, which we know well. You are also familiar with the institutions that are members of the famous U15 group, the 15 largest universities in Canada. How do we give a chance to a person who has potential, who has talent, who would like to do research, but who has to leave because they don't have access to a university that has the funding to do more scientific work? As you just mentioned, Canadian and Quebec researchers even go to other countries because the scientific ecosystem isn't very developed in Canada.