It is very encouraging to read the comments made on this discussion. I share the concerns about the budget's targeting of graduate scholarships to particular disciplines.

Targeting is dangerous for two reasons.One, in a knowledge economy, we need research in all disciplines to foster innovation and its is unwise to pretend to know which particular themes or domains will be the most crucial in 15 or 20 years. Second, and more importantly, targeting per discipline ( ie, here to business related degrees) misses the point of interdisciplinarity. As universities attempt to transcend disciplines, we have a government that reinforces distinctions and silos... Targeting by discipline seems particularly wrong headed. This is not the granting councils' doings, it comes from government.

The Canadian Federation of Social Sciences and Humanities advocatea that this undervaluing of social sciences and humanities research is shortsighted and stifles the potential for innovation in all disciplines.