Industry committee  The $500 million I spoke of is the normal annual S and T budget. It includes the salaries of the—

Industry committee  It's from our partners. It's the leverage we get through working with provinces, with other federal departments, with industry, and with academia. The total S and T activity equals around $800 million, of which we spend $500 million, and we get $300 million from others, either in

Industry committee  It depends how you count. If you look at the characteristic of the major centres the government has, we have 18.

Industry committee  We are always looking at ways to be more effective and efficient, yes. But we are also distributed across the country, because much of our work is done in the regions on the ground, in association with the industry.

Industry committee  Thank you. The example I'd like to give, to respond to the question you asked around what's being done, is trying to get a collaboration in place that gets the industry at the table at the outset of the technology development that is going on. As I said in my overarching introdu

Industry committee  I would start by saying ditto to what my colleague from DFO has said, and I suspect that's true across most of the witnesses here today. But the one other thing I would like to note is that as we develop a more collaborative innovation system in Canada, the movement of scientist

Industry committee  Thank you for the opportunity to speak to that. The forest sector in the country has gone through a fairly dramatic struggle in the last five to seven years, driven by a number of different components, not the least of which are the issues--north and south--with softwood lumber

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Like my colleagues, I'd like to provide a quick overview of NRCan and the S and T we do there. Natural Resources Canada is a science-based policy and program department, so science and technology plays a critical role in addressing the challenges and oppor