Finance committee  I'm not certain. Dr. Busing might be able to answer that better than I. I think part of it does not include government, I'm pretty sure, in some of the research that's done there.

Finance committee  Yes, I think so, and any other funding we would hope would be on an ongoing basis, as it is now, rather than just that envelope. The regional indirect costs program was for three years, I believe, then it was extended. I don't know what the future of it is. We are looking at ho

Finance committee  Currently, the way it stands especially for magazines and journals, if they contain less than 5% advertising there is a full GST rebate, and of course it's true for books, where there is typically no advertising. For electronic journals, however, there is no rebate. It doesn't ma

Finance committee  That's a very good question. It's difficult. I guess we have to provide the opportunities for people, and that's what we are trying to do through promoting e-learning. Certainly the rudiments have to be there. People have to know how to read and utilize what we offer. But on the

Finance committee  In our case, a lot of the research grants are for research purposes, and if you start diverting those for expenses, such as the normal expenses a university encounters—for example, heat, light, administration, and so forth—these would really reduce the effectiveness of those gran

Finance committee  I would like to thank the chairperson for allowing me the opportunity to speak at the committee today. I'm particularly glad to appear, given that one of the committee's principal goals is to look at ways of making Canada more competitive. This is a goal I firmly support, and I t