Finance committee  Well, there have been investments made through various channels, and the tri-councils have received funding, but unfortunately that funding hasn't kept up with inflation. As a result, if you compare today's funding with 2007's, we are under by $176 million. Our request is very

Finance committee  Thank you. U15 has been in existence for the past three years. In its first incarnation, it was was G10. Ten research-intensive universities in Canada came together because we had very special objectives and needs, but also a role to play—which is partially an answer to various

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My name is Feridun Hamdullahpur. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before the committee. As chair of the U15, I'm here representing the group of Canada's research-intensive universities from across the country. I'm also president and vice-chancellor

Finance committee  As you can appreciate, this is a very broad subject. If I could just confine it within our research in terms of the university's mandate, more and more investment and fundamental basic research is absolutely the way to get this started.

Finance committee  I make this word bold and underline it several times because without investment in basic research, there could be no commercialization. I do not differentiate the research as basic, applied, or able to be commercialized, but we have to work at that level. A good example is, we'r

Finance committee  While we are accounting for innovation, we also recognize that our economy has gone through a major crisis. Overall, at universities, we were, I wouldn't say extremely pleased, but comfortable with the fact that our research grants, or grants from the tri-councils, did not experi

Finance committee  Our biggest gap right now is our focus for lack of investment in that area, not just monetary investment, but our universities, and also investment in terms of our resources, and talent investment. We need to bring our collective heads together to ensure that we are allocating

Finance committee  There need to be policy changes. Nevertheless, I believe it requires a major cultural shift in the private sector in Canada.

Finance committee  I didn't know that I was limited by time in answering the question, so thank you.

Finance committee  This question is the right question. We see this as one of the missing pieces in this entire research ecosystem. It does exist, but it doesn't exist at the level that we believe will really provide a very energetic research environment in Canada. One of the main reasons, we beli

Finance committee  Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for the opportunity to appear before the committee. I'm here as chair of Canada's U15 group of research-intensive universities, a role I fulfill in addition to my role as president of the University of Waterloo. As you may know, this is the secon

Finance committee  In conclusion, I would like to emphasize for this panel the critical role the federal government plays in supporting the full spectrum of discovery and applied research and in enabling the development of highly qualified and competitive graduates. This robust partnership between