Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much to the witnesses for being here today.
I'd like to ask a question of Mr. Corbett. In your opening statement, you said that:
“Canada needs a national science adviser to bring science issues directly to the public agenda.
You also stated:
Government must engage the scientific community as a whole, including the government's own scientists and the professional institute which represents them, if it wishes to strengthen scientists' roles in national S and T policy formulation and improve public science's innovation capacity.
We did have a national science adviser, and there were basically no resources for that office, no reporting structure, and no accountability, and as a result, there were no results.
Now, we have something called STIC, and I don't know if you're aware of the mandate of STIC, but you ask for a national foresight program. I was wondering if you could explain to members how your plan would be different from what's already happening with STIC and the regular state-of-the-nation report.