en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Leung

University of Waterloo’s own current pages contradict the present-tense claim that Debbie Leung is a University Research Chair.

• Leung’s personal University of Waterloo page, updated July 31, 2026, lists her current affiliation as “Professor” in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, with “University Research Chair 2015-2022” shown as a past title.
• Her Institute for Quantum Computing profile likewise labels her “Faculty, Professor” and lists “University Research Chair … 2015-2022” under major positions.

So the article’s present-tense statement is no longer accurate: she previously held that chair, but Waterloo’s current official pages do not list her as holding it now.

This sentence misstates the structure of Debbie Leung’s Canada Research Chair appointment.

According to the official Canada Research Chairs program, Tier 2 Chairs are tenable for five years and renewable once. They are not awarded as a single 10-year term.

For Leung specifically, the Government of Canada’s 2005 disclosure lists her Canada Research Chair in Quantum Communication at the University of Waterloo with a start date of 2005-09-01 and a total award of $500,000 over 5 years. University of Waterloo’s current profile then shows the overall chair period as 2005–2015, which is consistent with an initial five-year award followed by a renewal—not a 10-year chair won outright in 2005.

So the incorrect part is the phrase “won a 10-year Tier II Canada Research Chair”: the 2005 award was a five-year Tier II chair, later renewable once.