Industry Committee on May 1st, 2008

Evidence of meeting #35 for Industry, Science and Technology in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was universities.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Canadian Science and Technology
Committee Business

MPs speaking

Dan McTeague
Scott Brison
Paule Brunelle
Colin Carrie
Peggy Nash
Raymond Simard
Bruce Stanton
Robert Vincent
Dave Van Kesteren
André Arthur
James Rajotte

Also speaking

Robert Best  Vice-President, National Affairs Branch, Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
Eliot Phillipson  President and Chief Executive Officer, Canada Foundation for Innovation
Martin Godbout  President and Chief Executive Officer, Genome Canada
Norm Hüner  Scientific Director, Biotron
Manon Harvey  Vice-President, Finance and Corporate Services, Canada Foundation for Innovation
Michelle Gauthier  Director of research, Policy and Analysis, Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada

12:50 p.m.

Conservative

James Rajotte Conservative Edmonton—Leduc, AB

Thank you.

12:50 p.m.

Liberal

The Vice-Chair Liberal Dan McTeague

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.

Witnesses, thank you very much for being here today. This is the first of many more to come. We are going to do an in-depth study. There has not been one done by this committee in a very long time, and we do plan to continue with the good work efforts and the ideas that you presented here to the committee today.

I want to thank colleagues as well for their thoroughness.

We are going to go in camera and very briefly then finish the fourth report of the subcommittee on agenda and procedure.

[Proceedings continue in camera]