Minister Champagne said he wants to forbid university research of any kind with any defence or military university institution in China. I hope that would be a very broad list. In other words, there are 65 direct military universities in China, and there are 160 associated civilian labs that focus on military research. I'm hoping that all of those will be included in the list that the department is developing now and that it will be announced sometime soon. The sooner the better, because researchers are now putting in their proposals for their next research projects, and it's important that they know which organizations not to partner with. I've been saying since the very beginning that we should be giving the list from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute to every researcher and government lab in Canada so they don't partner with them.
On September 25th, 2023. See this statement in context.