Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Lacroix, further to what I asked you earlier, I'd like to know whether you could get back to the committee clerk with the number and percentage of master's and Ph.D. students receiving federal funding, as well as the number receiving provincial funding? I am mainly interested in researchers and those who receive no funding, so I can draw some comparisons.
Ms. De Jaegher, I'd like to ask you, as well, to send us any statistics you'd like to share. The information will help paint an accurate picture for us and inform potential recommendations.
Mr. Lacroix, you talked about the importance of implementing the recommendations in the Bouchard report—the “Report of the Advisory Panel on the Federal Research Support System”—commissioned by the federal government and released on March 20. One of the panel's recommendations was to increase the three granting councils' total base budgets by 10% over five years.
I'd like to hear your views on the importance of not just increasing scholarships and indexing them to reflect the cost of living, but also ensuring that we have the means to match our ambitions. I'm talking about greater support for the three granting agencies.