Writing a Briefing Note

For this assignment you will be writting a briefing note to the canadian government as an independant economist. The subject of the assignment is; Whether the Government of Canada should adopt a more equitable, diverse and inclusive awards and promotion scheme across all departments and agencies or adopt a meritocracy awards and promotion scheme. In particular, should Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) continue its current practices as outlined in the article attached. You will need to apply economic theory to support your answer as well as provide a recommendations section at the end that can be seen in the outline attached.