Science and Research committee  One of the greatest challenges we're facing at our institute is in fact funding—grant funding, etc. We have start-up funding from Simon Fraser University, but in terms of support for the institute, much of that comes from the researchers' grants and the ways that researchers have been able to acquire grants.

Science and Research committee  Yes, it's accessing funding, whether it's individual researchers or a network of researchers. I'll tell you this. When other people like the U15 reach out to me as part of a research grant, it's often already fashioned. I have very little impact on leading it or on taking it in a direction that would address the real deficit in research know-how that affects Black and racialized communities in this country, so yes, it is a real challenge.

Science and Research committee  Thank you very much. My name, as you know, is Dr. June Francis. I'm the director of the Institute of the Black and African Diaspora Research and Engagement at Simon Fraser University. I'm also a professor in the Beedie School of Business and I chair the anti-racism data committee for the Province of British Columbia.