Science and Research committee  I think that something we've spoken about is thinking about the totality of the existing investment in research, thinking about the colleges and polytechnics as an integrated part of the ecosystem and then trying to transition some of those review processes that very much push to

Science and Research committee  It very much depends on the project and on the partner. I would say that in some cases, when we look at examples from across our membership, we would see that if it was a fairly large private sector partner, they would provide the majority of the funding. Then the funding that's

Science and Research committee  For the most part, our members would say that they have no interest in the IP, and that's actually one of the selling features with small businesses that come to the institutions for support. They like the fact that we're not going to keep their IP, and they can turn that into th

Science and Research committee  The only thing I would perhaps add to that is thinking about the investment and recognizing that the federal investment that flows through to the provinces is trying to cover both education and health. These are competing demands. What we've seen is an emphasis on health care, wh

Science and Research committee  It is not quite the same. Certainly the bigger institutions have a larger footprint when it comes to their facilities, their equipment and their capacity, but there are a number of smaller institutions—CEGEPs and more regional colleges—that do, in fact, have a substantive applied

Science and Research committee  Consultations do occur. That's the reason for our organizations to exist. If the consultations aren't occurring, then we want to push to have them occur. The one thing I will say about the investment in the last budget to the college and community innovation program is that it's

Science and Research committee  Front-loading the increase is necessary, but we're talking about a program that is under a lot of stress all the time, so the sector has more capacity than it has funding. Obviously, diminishing is not growing.

Science and Research committee  I think this is something that was raised in the previous panel as well. There's a sense that if you don't already have the funding, then you are ineligible for some of the allocations in the way that they're made. My point there stands. If the college and community innovation p

Science and Research committee  One of the things I would say is that the college and community innovation program was developed roughly 20 years ago with the idea that we were going to build capacity within the sector so the sector has capacity. Now the problem is that you're not using the capacity that they'v

Science and Research committee  The research that the institutions are doing is really based on what the partners bring to them. It's common to the business partners. They're looking at housing. They're looking at the transition to net zero. They're looking at productivity lags and getting products to market.

Science and Research committee  I believe they do. Now, it's really in the last 10 or 20 years that the capacity has even been developed within the college system. I think one of the reasons it has been underfunded and overlooked in the past is that it's a relatively new ability. The kinds of problems that are

Science and Research committee  In general, we find that the students who come to the college and polytechnic sector are coming because it's cheaper to study there. They're still getting excellent education and they're looking for that link to the job market. That's not to say that they're not struggling. We ce

Science and Research committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My thanks to the committee for the invitation to join you in the early stages of this study. As Pari mentioned, the research capacity of the polytechnic and college sector is overlooked and under-resourced. This bears repeating. When we look at the total a

Science and Research committee  The final recommendation was around the tri-council funding formulas and ensuring that the college and community innovation program is not exempt from some of those funding formulas in the research support fund and programs like the Canada research chairs.

Science and Research committee  What we saw during the pandemic was definitely some difficulty for some small businesses to come up with the in-cash support. The COVID recovery grants allowed for more in-kind support, and less in cash. We've found that the private sector community is looking forward to getting